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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.…
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Bowens to Present on Their Sand Creek Discovery Book March 1 in Eads
You are invited to a book program and signing Friday, March 1 at 10 a.m. at JJ’s Restaurant in Eads. Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, will present on the book and the incredible discovery of the Lost Sand Creek site, made by his parents, Chuck and Sheri Bowen. This book…