At dawn on November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led more than 600 volunteers and troops with the First and Third Colorado Regiments on a violent raid of a peaceful village of Cheyenne and ...
The Sand Creek Massacre occurred on Big Sandy Creek's banks, near modern-day Eads in Kiowa County on the state's Eastern Plains. More than 230 Cheyenne and Arapahoe, primarily women, elderly and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than a week after Thanksgiving in 1864, Army Col. John Chivington had a plan for a Native American encampment he gazed down ...
Colorado lawmakers on Monday gave unanimous approval to a resolution on the design and location for a memorial to honor the victims of the Sand Creek massacre. The project has been decades in the ...