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Drone Video of Sand Creek Running at the Lost Sand Creek Site
Check out this video of drone footage of Sand Creek running in Cheyenne County by Joe Harbert. The creek ran about 10 feet wide on Sunday, June 18. By the next day, it was over 150 feet wide in parts. On Wednesday, June 21, the creek was still running wide, but wasn’t running as wide…
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A Run in Sand Creek For the First Time in Eight Years, Runs Wider Next Day
Sand Creek is known as a dry creek—it rarely has running water. When it does run, it runs slowly and it takes a torrential rainfall further up the creek. It last ran eight years ago and didn’t run very wide. The creek was running about ten feet wide on Sunday, June 18. (Check out both…
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Cheyenne Descendants Hold Feeding the Spirits Ceremony at Lost Sand Creek Site
Part two of our series on descendants of Sand Creek: “A group of Indians wanted to have a feeding the spirits ceremony and asked Chuck to be involved,” Sheri Bowen said. The day before the ceremony, the group met at the Bowen home in Lamar, and they presented Chuck and Sheri with some hand-carved soapstone…
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Metal Detecting Eureka Creek Station Site at Bowen Meadow Ranch
Chuck, Joe Harbert, Mackenzie and Joey metal detected the Eureka Creek station site Saturday, June 3 at the Bowen Meadow Ranch, along Sand Creek in Cheyenne County. The site was also likely used as a homesteader’s dugout. It was a new experience metal detecting—it rained all day long. Joe’s grandson, Joey, found a piece of an…
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Sand Creek Descendants Visit Lost Sand Creek Site
We are beginning a new blog series. This series will highlight some of the descendants from Sand Creek that have visited Chuck and Sheri Bowen’s Lost Sand Creek Site. In the late 1990s to mid 2000s, Chuck and Sheri Bowen had many guests visit their Lost Sand Creek site. Among those guests included descendants of…