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How Was Genealogy Used in Sand Creek Research?
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Throughout their many years studying Sand Creek, Chuck and Sheri Bowen used genealogy with some of their research. Mike Bowen presented on Genealogy and Sand Creek Monday, March 6 for the Prowers County Genealogy Society. If you weren’t able to attend, check out this…
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20th Anniversary of Prayer and Deliverance of Curses Over Lost Sand Creek Site
By Mike Bowen Co-author We Found The Lost Sand Creek Site In the early 2000s, Chuck and Sheri were dealing with spiritual warfare concerning their involvement with Sand Creek. Sometimes Indians would cross over the barbed wire fence from the National Park Service side. The No Trespassing signs weren’t observed. They would leave something to…
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Sand Creek: Fact or Fiction: Part 6: Why Did Soldiers Attack Black Kettle’s Village on Sand Creek?
By Mike Bowen Co-author We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site [The following information comes directly from Sand Creek eyewitnesses] On November 29, 1864, at daylight, members of the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries arrived at a bluff, and saw a large Indian village, scattered about two miles away, (Howbert, Irving, Memories of a Lifetime…
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Sand Creek: Fact or Fiction: Part 5: What Did George Bent Say About Sand Creek?
By Mike Bowen Co-author We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site What many may not know about George Bent is he fought in the Civil War before coming back to Colorado and living as a Cheyenne warrior. He was born at Bent’s Old Fort and spent his school years in Westport, near present-day Kansas City,…