Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864

Abstract Raymond Carey (1901-1972), professor of history at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado from 1945 to 1971, conducted research on the massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado, which took place on November 29, 1864. In this incident, the troops of the Colorado Third Volunteer Regiment, commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington, attacked a group of 500 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians who were encamped on the banks of the Sand Creek, about 40 miles from Fort Lyon, near the present-day town of Lamar....

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Series 4 contains a copy of the Judge Advocate Generals Report and exerpts of reactions in the Colorado press.

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Series 3 contains a copy of a recruiting poster for Indian Fighters and a blueprint of the massacre site.

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Series 1 contains accounts by individuals and historians of the events and people involved in the Sand Creek Massacre.

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Series 1 contains accounts by individuals and historians of the events and people involved in the Sand Creek Massacre.

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Series 1 contains accounts by individuals and historians of the events and people involved in the Sand Creek Massacre.

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Series 1 contains accounts by individuals and historians of the events and people involved in the Sand Creek Massacre.

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Sands of Sand Creek Historiography

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Series 3 contains a copy of a recruiting poster for Indian Fighters and a blueprint of the massacre site.

Abstract Thomas Jacob Noel, better known as Tom Noel, was a professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver. Noel discusses several important people in Colorado's history, particularly influential people in Denver. Noel discusses William Newton Byers, who was the founder of the Rocky Mountain News and the rivalry between Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. Next, Noel discusses the role General William H. Larimer, Jr. played in naming Denver and how Governor John Evans founded Denver...