The Lost Sand Creek

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  • Colorado Getaways Featured Sand Creek Tours in 2005

    By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site In April 2005, Doug Whitehead with Denver’s Channel 4, featured Chuck and Sheri Bowen’s Sand Creek Tours business on Colorado Getaways.  Chuck Bowen contacted Whitehead after he saw a Colorado Getaways program featuring the traditional Sand Creek site, where the monument sits. Bowen informed…

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  • Butch Kelley, Historian & Cavalry Reenactor, Compares Cavalry Equipment to Bowens’ Sand Creek Artifacts

    Watch the video below featuring Butch Kelley, Cavalry reenactor and historian, compare artifacts Chuck and Sheri Bowen found at the real Sand Creek site to Cavalry equipment. (Blog continues below video) Kelley identified the most important artifact of all. Get our book at Amazon here: We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site. Don’t forget to…

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  • Mary Marble Presents on Chivington, CO in 2013

    Mary Marble, former Chivington, CO postmaster, presented on history of the town December of 2013.  This was another well attended program put together by Chuck Bowen when he was vice president of PCHS.  Mary worked as postmaster at the Chivington Post Office for 38 years—she retired in 1988.  She spoke about what life was life…

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  • Towner Bus Tragedy

    By Mike Bowen Historian Jesse Melton gave a presentation on the Towner Bus Tragedy on October 19, 2017. The Towner Bus Tragedy, also known as the Pleasant Hill School Bus tragedy, took place on March 26, 1931 in Southeast Colorado during a blizzard which resulted in the death of the bus driver and five children.…

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  • Ol’ Cheyenne On an Edison Phonograph

    In the 1890s, the location of the Sand Creek event was seemingly lost. The 1894 United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) Topo map did not show the battleground. The map showed specific locations, and bends in the creek became  important landmarks.  An interest in marking the Sand Creek site emerged when four of the Sand Creek…

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