Twyla Eilertsen Ruby

Twyla's graduate education in the history of science prepared her for a career in museum…

Kathleen (Kate) Eilertsen

Minnesota minister's daughter who went east and then west to make her career as an artist…

Arvilla Delight Smith

Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado…

Nathan Cook Meeker

Social reformer sent to Colorado by Horace Greeley was the victim of an Indian uprising. He was…

Josephine Meeker

Daughter of Nathan Meeker who wrote and lectured about her experiences in the Meeker massacre.…

Ralph Lovejoy Meeker

Journalist for the New York Herald who exposed corruption in the Ulysses Grant…