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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,…
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Rocky Ford Watermelon Day Early 1900s
Enjoy these photos of Watermelon Day in Rocky Ford, CO in the early 1900s. We believe it was 1903. The photos were taken by Frank Sherman, who famously photographed a cattle drive by the Holt Cattle Company in southeast Colorado. These photos are in the Bowen collection, and the black and white photos were colorized.…
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Plum Creek Massacre: A Catalyst For Sand Creek
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site On Aug. 8, 1864, more than 100 Indians attacked a wagon train carrying freight from Sidney, Iowa, to Denver. Eleven people were killed in the attack, including Thomas Morton, the owner of the freight wagons, and his brother-in-law, William Fletcher and his wife’s cousin,…
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Bowen Presents in Springfield, CO on How Sand Creek Became Lost
How did Sand Creek become lost? Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, presented on the book and how Sand Creek became lost. The program was held Tuesday, August 1 in Springfield, CO at the museum. There are a lot of misunderstandings concerning the 1864 Sand Creek event, and this book provides…