bowen, Author at The Lost Sand Creek

General Custer, General Sheridan, Buffalo Bill, and others went on a buffalo hunt in January 1872 to entertain the Grand Duke of […]

Sand Creek: Fact or Fiction: 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 […]

It is long believed that when Colonel Chivington led the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries to Sand Creek, they attacked a village […]

We are starting a blog series, fact or fiction concerning the Sand Creek event in 1864. In this first part we will […]

By Mike Bowen Irving Howbert, the grandson of one of the founding fathers of Colorado Springs and soldier at Sand Creek, also […]

The Water Valley Schoolhouse, which now sits on our ranch in Cheyenne County, originally sat several miles down Sand Creek, about six […]

Robert Campbell was George Bent’s guardian when George went to St. Louis in 1857 to finish his education after going to school […]

Our good friends Curt and Angie Neeley spent Thanksgiving with us in 2008. Curt and I went to see the location of […]

Our longtime acquaintance, Jeff Broome, was a guest on the Richard Randall Show, KVOR AM 740, a little after 9 a.m. November […]

We got to ride in a helicopter with Denver news pilot Mike Silva. In 1993, we were contacted by an independent archaeologist […]