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Sand Creek: Fact or Fiction Part 4: How Trustworthy is Soldier Testimony?
Soldier eyewitness testimony about Sand Creek is often discredited. According to the traditional story, the soldiers stormed through a sleeping village, killing the Indians, mostly women, children and elderly, as they came out of their tipis. So, anything testified by soldiers to the contrary, is immediately considered a lie. However, in previous blogs in this…
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Historian and Cavalry Reenactor, Butch Kelley, To Show Cavalry Equipment and Compare to Bowens’ Sand Creek Artifacts
By Mike Bowen Co-author of We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Join us at the High Plains Snow Goose Festival to get your copy of our book signed. We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site details the incredible discovery made by Chuck and Sheri Bowen that reveals the true location of Sand Creek. We…
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General Custer Leads Grand Duke Alexis on Buffalo Hunt
General Custer, General Sheridan, Buffalo Bill, and others went on a buffalo hunt in January 1872 to entertain the Grand Duke of Russia, Alexis. They left Denver and arrived at Kit Carson by a special train of Pullman palace cars with about 150 people, (Rocky Mountain News Weekly, January 24, 1872). The hunt took place…
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Sand Creek: Fact or Fiction: Part 3: Were the Indians Killed As They Slept?
The Sand Creek traditional story says that about 700 members of the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries stormed through Black Kettle’s sleeping village on November 29, 1864 and slaughtered the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians as they came out of their tipis. How much of this is true? Here is a brief summary of the traditional…
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Sand Creek Fact or Fiction: Part 2: Was it Only Women, Children and Elderly at Sand Creek?
It is long believed that when Colonel Chivington led the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries to Sand Creek, they attacked a village of women, children and some elderly. The traditional story says that the warriors were off hunting and not in the village on Nov. 29, 1864. It’s unclear where this theory began that warriors…