ARAPAHO, Okla. — It’s likely that nobody put up a fight when Custer County was named in 1896, just a couple months short of the 20th anniversary of the Battle
GLORIETA PASS — Looking down from the hilly forest, Byron Parker said the landscape below once was scarred by violence, blood, bullets and cannon balls. In many ways, it was
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Wednesday, November 29, 2023, is the anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, where approximately 230 Cheyenne & Arapaho were killed at the hands of 675 U.S. soldiers, known as the Colorado territory militia. The soldiers were commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington to attack a village of about 750 Cheyenne and Arapaho along the Sand Creek River in Colorado. For years, the United States had been engaged in conflict with several American Indian tribes over territory rights.
Still harboring grudges from an ill-fated 1841 Texas expedition to take control of the territory, many Nuevomexicanos, as they were known at the time, volunteered to fight for the North