The Lost Sand Creek

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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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  • What Are the Connections with the 1864 Sand Creek Event and Other States?

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site There were multiple events that led to Sand Creek and for the 100-day volunteer regiment, the Colorado 3rd Cavalry, to be formed. Some involved with Sand Creek were not from Colorado. What is the connection?  “I was in one of the largest villages on…

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  • Were White Scalps Found in Black Kettle’s Village at Sand Creek?

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site One part of the Sand Creek story that has been suppressed is that soldiers found white scalps in the Indian tipis in Black Kettle’s village. It is well documented by multiple eyewitnesses that white scalps were found.  None of us were at Sand Creek…

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