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  • Sand Creek: Colorado Territory Governor, Soldiers Defend Event as a Battle

    Check out the video below to see Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, read from Sand Creek soldier Irving Howbert’s book, Memories of a Lifetime in the Pike’s Peak Region. Give us a follow on Facebook: BowenHistory Subscribe to our YouTube channel: thelostsandcreek Follow us on X (formerly Twitter): thelostsandcreek Get our book.…

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  • Irving Howbert: Sand Creek Soldier – Does He Defend the Event as a Battle or a Massacre?

    Check out the video below to hear a Sand Creek account from an eyewitness. Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, reads excerpts from Howbert’s two books, The Indians of the Pike’s Peak Region and Memories of a Lifetime in the Pike’s Peak Region. Give us a follow on Facebook: BowenHistory Subscribe…

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  • How Did Cheyenne Indians Treat Animals on the Plains?

    By Mike Bowen – co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site  The following information comes directly from George Bent who lived as a Cheyenne Dog Soldier (warrior). He wrote letters to historians while working as an Indian agent in Oklahoma. Some of the historians George Bent wrote to included George Hyde and George Bird…

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  • Metal Detecting Sand Creek – Artifact Demonstration 

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Chuck and Mike metal detected last week at the Bowen Meadow Ranch, which includes part of the Lost Sand Creek Site.  According to an 1880 survey map, there was a spot marked as a Cabin and Claim. No homestead had been applied for, so…

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  • Young Nebraska Boys Struck By Same Arrow and the Connection to Sand Creek

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Two brothers, Henry Nathaniel (Nat) and Robert Martin, were struck by the same arrow when Indians were stealing their father’s horses in August of 1864.  George Martin, along with his sons, Nat and Robert, were loading hay in Nebraska when Sioux Indians made a…

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