156 Buckskin Charley

156 BUCKSKIN CHARLEY, Southern Ute Chief (1840-1936) Succeeding Chief Ouray in 1880, Charles Buck became the first Ute leader during the Reservation period. He is remembered for leading the rescue of the women and children abducted during the Meeker Massacre and riding with Geronimo in President Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 Inaugural Parade. Buckskin Charley is pictured wearing his prized Benjamin Harrison 1890 Peace Medal. Photograph by C.A. Nast, c.1899 Photograph by C.A. Nast, Curtis Street Studio, Denver, Colorado, c. 1899