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Bill Huffman Presents in 2016 on Gun Found at Sand Creek in 1891
Bill Huffman, the grandson of William “Buster” Albright, recently passed away. He was 84. Buster found a gun on Sand Creek in 1891, ten miles north of Chivington. The spot he found the gun would become part of the Bowen family ranch. Chuck and Sheri Bowen discovered over 4,000 Sand Creek period artifacts on the…
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The Jayhawker at Sand Creek
By Mike Bowen – Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site P. M. Williams, known as Lant, fought at Sand Creek. He was only nineteen. He was one of four veteran soldiers that held a reunion in 1908 and tried to mark the spot where they fought. He was living in Bennington, KS at…
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Truth Wins! Part 3: How Accurate are the Artifacts?
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site The Sand Creek artifacts Chuck Bowen found with his metal detector were meticulously documented, each with a photo and GPS coordinates. The photos provided a timestamp and the GPS provided the location of the artifact. The artifacts are bagged with a card that documents…
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What Would Cause This Sinkhole?
What would cause this sinkhole? It goes down five feet and appears to stop. I’ve never seen an animal dig anything like that. A prairie dog hole would have dirt around it. The spring fed pond is 250 yards long and about 215 yards from the sinkhole. It’s fed from the east and not from…