The Lost Sand Creek

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  • Sand Creek Hearings and Reports: Are They Trustworthy? 

    By Mike Bowen – Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site How trustworthy are the military reports from the hearings that followed Sand Creek?  Most trust that a military report is correct, without any bias.  What if information had been uncovered, showing that the Commission working with Lt. Colonel Sam Tappan, was very biased?…

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  • Multiple Sites Claimed in 1908 for Sand Creek Location 

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site If you missed our blog about the Missing Bonsall map, make sure to read it here: BonsallMap. Just four years after Sand Creek, in 1868, the location of Black Kettle’s village was undoubtedly known. Lt. Bonsall traveled from Ft. Lyon 40 miles north to…

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  • The Missing Bonsall Map

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site The location of Black Kettle’s village and Sand Creek battle locations in 1864 became missing sometime between 1868 and 1908. Just four years after Sand Creek, Lt. Bonsall traveled from Ft. Lyon to the site and measured the village location.  Bonsall documented the site…

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  • The Lt. Bonsall Map – Our Rosetta Stone For the Lost Sand Creek Site Discovery

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Chuck and Sheri Bowen set out to discover the real Sand Creek site location in 1995 after they learned the Sand Creek Battle Ground monument likely marked the wrong site. Lt. Bonsall went to the site in 1868 where Black Kettle was camped just…

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  • Sand Creek Claims of a Massacre: Part 5 – The Indians Owned the Land

    By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site  We recently began a blog series covering the claims that allege Sand Creek was a massacre. One of the arguments people give to defend the atrocities committed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians is they “owned the land.”  The National Park Service claims it…

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