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The Lost Sand Creek Site Medicine Lodge, KS Program – Friday, September 27
Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, presented Friday, September 27, on the book and the Sand Creek site discovery made by his parents, Chuck and Sheri Bowen. Enjoy the video from our Friday program. The blog continues below the video. Check out our short film: Private Mac: The James Carr Letter.…
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The Order of Indian Wars Lost Sand Creek Site Tour
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site The Order of Indian Wars Tour – The Lost Sand Creek Site Twenty-one years ago, Chuck and Sheri Bowen hosted the Order of Indians Wars, for a tour of the Lost Sand Creek Site. “NPS historian emeritus Ed Bearss would be leading the group.…
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Bowen Presents in Kit Carson on Lost Sand Creek Site Discovery and Book
Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, presented in Kit Carson on Saturday, August 31. Check out the video below to see the program. The blog continues below the video. Some of the artifacts on display included pieces of a cannonball shell, a Bormann fuse and the lead balls that went in…
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The Dietemann Massacre
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Arapaho Indians were raiding about five miles east of Kiowa, Colorado August 25, 1868 when they killed thirty-one-year-old Henrietta Dietemann and her five-year-old son, John, while he was running to his mother. Mr. Dietemann was not at home. Kiowa is about 50 miles southeast…
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Did a Grandson of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence Help to Save Colorado Territory?
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site A man who claimed to be Elbridge Gerry, the grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, of the same name, did something quite remarkable in the summer of 1864. Irving Howbert, a soldier at Sand Creek, wrote about Gerry in his book,…