Sand Creek: Fact or Fiction Part 4: How Trustworthy is Soldier Testimony?
Soldier eyewitness testimony about Sand Creek is often discredited. According to the traditional story, the soldiers stormed through a sleeping village, killing […]
Historian and Cavalry Reenactor, Butch Kelley, To Show Cavalry Equipment and Compare to Bowens’ Sand Creek Artifacts
By Mike Bowen Co-author of We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Join us at the High Plains Snow Goose Festival to […]
General Custer Leads Grand Duke Alexis on Buffalo Hunt
General Custer, General Sheridan, Buffalo Bill, and others went on a buffalo hunt in January 1872 to entertain the Grand Duke of […]
Sand Creek: Fact or Fiction: Part 3: Were the Indians Killed As They Slept?
The Sand Creek traditional story says that about 700 members of the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries stormed through Black Kettle’s sleeping […]
Sand Creek Fact or Fiction: Part 2: Was it Only Women, Children and Elderly at Sand Creek?
It is long believed that when Colonel Chivington led the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries to Sand Creek, they attacked a village […]
Sand Creek Fact or Fiction: How Many Indians Were Killed at Sand Creek?
We are starting a blog series, fact or fiction concerning the Sand Creek event in 1864. In this first part we will […]
Irving Howbert, Grandson of Sand Creek Soldier, Visits the Lost Sand Creek Site in 2007
By Mike Bowen Irving Howbert, the grandson of one of the founding fathers of Colorado Springs and soldier at Sand Creek, also […]
The Water Valley Schoolhouse, a Testament of Truth
The Water Valley Schoolhouse, which now sits on our ranch in Cheyenne County, originally sat several miles down Sand Creek, about six […]
William Bent’s Son, George, Stayed at the Campbell House While in School in St. Louis
Robert Campbell was George Bent’s guardian when George went to St. Louis in 1857 to finish his education after going to school […]
Book Cover Photo Taken on Sand Creek Anniversary in 2008
Our good friends Curt and Angie Neeley spent Thanksgiving with us in 2008. Curt and I went to see the location of […]