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Chuck Bowen Joins Rod’s Photography in 1974, Buys the Business in 1975
By Mike Bowen co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Rod’s Photography, owned by Rod Hawk, was in downtown Lamar at 107 South Main, where Thoughts in Bloom is now located. The photo studio was in the back of the Hallmark gift card store. They placed an ad in the Lamar Daily News in…
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Butch Kelly (Kelley) Bronc Rider – Butch Kelley Subject of Artwork by Famous Artist James Bama
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Butch Kelley was the subject for a piece of artwork by famed western artist, James Bama, in the early 1970s. The piece is called, “Butch Kelly (Kelley) Bronc Rider.” The artwork appeared in the magazine, Southwest Art, in 1980. “James Bama was an iconic…
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The Lost Sand Creek Site Featured on Classic Hunts in the American Outback in 2006
By Mike Bowen co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Lee Hawes, the executive producer and host for a TV show, Classic Hunts in the American Outback, contacted Chuck Bowen in 2006 about doing a feature on Chuck and Sheri’s Sand Creek discovery for his show. It was an old-time hunting show using black…
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The Witness Tree
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site What became known as the Witness Tree or Hugging Tree, became a feature on all of Chuck and Sheri Bowen’s Sand Creek Tours. They started offering tours at their Lost Sand Creek Site in 2002, just four years after documenting their Sand Creek site…
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General Custer Leads Grand Duke Alexis of Russia on Buffalo Hunt in 1872
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site General Custer, General Sheridan, Buffalo Bill, and others went on a buffalo hunt in January 1872 to entertain the Grand Duke of Russia, Alexis. They left Denver and arrived at Kit Carson by a special train of Pullman palace cars with about 150 people…