Chuck Bowen Joins Rod’s Photography in 1974, Buys the Business in 1975
By Mike Bowen co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Rod’s Photography, owned by Rod Hawk, was in downtown Lamar at […]
The Witness Tree
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site What became known as the Witness Tree or Hugging Tree, became […]
General Custer Leads Grand Duke Alexis of Russia on Buffalo Hunt in 1872
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site General Custer, General Sheridan, Buffalo Bill, and others went on a […]
We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site book Reviewed in Cavalry Journal
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Our book, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site, was reviewed […]
Why is it Believed Big Timbers was Near Lamar?
By Mike Bowen, co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Many have believed the location of Big Timbers to be in […]
James Arness Filming How the West Was Won at Bent’s Fort
By Mike Bowen Co-author, We Found the Lost Sand Creek Site Chuck Bowen took these photos of James Arness and other members […]
Private Mac: The James Carr Letter
Robert McFarland was a soldier at Sand Creek. He was killed by a Cheyenne Warrior. He enlisted as a Private and left […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]