Towner Bus Tragedy
By Mike Bowen Historian Jesse Melton gave a presentation on the Towner Bus Tragedy on October 19, 2017. The Towner Bus Tragedy, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sand Creek Fact or Fiction: How Many Indians Were Killed at Sand Creek?
We are starting a blog series, fact or fiction concerning the Sand Creek event in 1864. In this first part we will […]
Irving Howbert, Grandson of Sand Creek Soldier, Visits the Lost Sand Creek Site in 2007
By Mike Bowen Irving Howbert, the grandson of one of the founding fathers of Colorado Springs and soldier at Sand Creek, also […]