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Water Valley School House
Check out our video on the Water Valley School House. See more about the Water Valley School House here: WaterValleySchoolHouse Click the Buy the Book tab in the top right of the page or you can also get our book here: WeFoundTheLostSandCreekSite Follow us on Facebook: BowenHistory Don’t forget to comment below and share this blog…
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Metal Detecting Old Cheyenne Wells
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Chuck Bowen, Butch Kelley and I visited the Old Cheyenne Wells site Thursday, September 14, on private property with permission from the land owner. The land owner was with us. Chuck metal detected along the trail that went to Old Cheyenne Wells from Three Forks.…
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Bowen Presents at Old Colorado City History Center on How Sand Creek Became Lost
Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, presented Friday, September 8 at the Old Colorado City History Center on how Sand Creek became lost. The program was hosted by the Old Colorado City Historical Society. Check out the video from the program below: (Just click on the video for it to play). …
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How Did We Get Involved in Sand Creek?
By Mike Bowen When it comes to Sand Creek, we don’t have a dog in this fight. We don’t have any ancestors who fought at Sand Creek or testified in any of the hearings that followed in 1865. We don’t have any connection to the event, only the location. Our interest is to share history…
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Minnesota Massacre of 1862 Leaves 800 Dead, People In Colorado Territory Fearful of Similar Attack
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Nearly two years before Sand Creek, the Minnesota Massacre on August 17, 1862, left eight hundred dead. The massacre left the people of Colorado Territory on high alert. From our book: The Minnesota Massacre of 1862, the Hungate family murders in June of 1864,…