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Bowen Presents in Las Animas on How the Lost Sand Creek Site Discovery Changes the Story
How does the Lost Sand Creek Site discovery change the story? Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, presented at the John W. Rawlings Heritage Center and Museum in Las Animas, CO Saturday, March 23 about the discovery his parents, Chuck and Sheri Bowen, made concerning the true location of the Nov.…
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Jesse Melton Presents on Towner Bus Tragedy in 2017
(Click on the video below to watch). By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Historian Jesse Melton gave a presentation on the Towner Bus Tragedy on October 19, 2017. The Towner Bus Tragedy, also known as the Pleasant Hill School Bus tragedy, took place on March 26, 1931 in Southeast Colorado…
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Oil Tycoon From Wichita Owned Ranch on Sand Creek – Marlene (Frederick) Shares Stories Living at the Ranch
By Mike Bowen – Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Oil tycoon, Elbert S. Rule, owned the Golden Rule Ranch on Sand Creek—this land would later become part of the Bowen family ranch. (See video below in the blog) Rule owned it for five years. Chuck Bowen’s grandparents bought that ranch in 1948.…
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Carl Wulsten, German Immigrants Camp on Our Ranch on Sand Creek March 7, 1870
General Carl Wulsten along with 397 German immigrants and 35 wagons left Chicago by train February 8, 1870 to establish a German colony in the Wet Mountain Valley south of Cañon City, CO. They changed trains at Kansas City, and the Kansas Pacific took them to Wallace about March 1, where they unloaded their wagons.…