Sand Creek Massacre and John Chivington's explosive actions 151 years after Glorieta Pass. The explosions outside the State Capitol yesterday startled people from downtown to Capitol Hill.

In the early morning hours of November 29, 1864 at Sand Creek, Colorado as they lay asleep U.S. Colonel John M. Chivington, commander in charge of the Colorado Volunteers, was responsible for the ...

The Sand Creek Massacre ended Chivington’s political ambitions. He deserved to become a pariah. Instead, he enjoyed peace and prosperity until his 1894 death in Denver, where he’s buried under ...

On the morning of Nov. 29, 1864, Col. John M. Chivington led approximately 700 members of the Colorado militia in an unexpected attack on the camp, killing about 150 people — mainly women ...

Part one of a three-part series on the Sand Creek Massacre. In 1864, former Methodist minister Col. John Chivington became angry and pounded on a table at Fort Lyon. He expounded, “Damn any man ...

If you go The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is located east of Eads and north of Chivington. From Colo. 96, County Road 54 north leads to the site — about seven miles. The site i… ...

Re: “Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado’s land grab from Native tribes,” Nov. 23 Perspective story. Given the multiple sources of credible evidence that the Colorado governor at that time, John ...

On this 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, ... From southeast Colorado, we have Prowers County, named after local rancher John Wesley Prowers, who Chivington arrested as a precaution.

Re: “Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado’s land grab from Native tribes,” Nov. 23 Perspective essay. Col. John Chivington (Denver Public Library) I was impressed with the honesty and accuracy of ...

A petition is asking people to support removing a statue in front of the Colorado state capitol building, claiming it memorializes John Chivington, a Civil War-era colonel who led the Sand Creek ...

Soule and Cramer witnessed but ordered their men not to participate in Col. John Chivington's Nov. 29, 1864, attack on Cheyenne and Arapaho camped along a dry creek bed.

Under the direction of Col. John Chivington, the soldiers killed over 200 ... Ridgely and other descendants spoke Saturday at Northwestern’s sixth annual Sand Creek Massacre ...