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    The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne...
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    Sand Creek is a 14.6-mile-long (23.5 km) tributary that flows into the South Platte River near Commerce City, Colorado. From its source in unincorporated...
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    November 22, 2019. "Colorado Experience: Sand Creek Massacre". Rocky Mountain PBS. November 28, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2020. Sand Creek Massacre National...
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  • Sand Creek Sand Creek Township (disambiguation) Sand Creek (Denver, Colorado), a tributary of the South Platte River flowing through Aurora, Denver,...
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    founded in the Colorado Territory in the wake of the Colorado Gold Rush to ship gold from the mountains. It expanded from its Golden–Denver line to form...
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    Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Kiowa County, Colorado, commemorating the Sand Creek Massacre that occurred here...
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    M. Chivington, the commander of the Colorado Volunteers, and his troops. The Indians' response to the Sand Creek Massacre was a move northward to the...
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    Silas Soule (category Burials at Riverside Cemetery (Denver, Colorado))
    commission investigating the Sand Creek Massacre, Soule was on duty as provost marshal of the Colorado Territory in Denver, when he went to investigate...
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    Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States. The park was originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument on March 17, 1932...
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    John Chivington (category Clergy from Denver)
    to Sand Creek, on August 2, 1861, he became the first Grand Master of Masons of Colorado. Several Freemasons, some of whom were present at the Sand Creek...
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  • The History of Denver details the history of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, the United States from its founding in 1858 to modern-day. Ever...
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    a peace settlement at Fort Weld outside Denver. The agreement assigned the Southern Cheyenne to the Sand Creek reservation and required them to report...
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    Cherry Creek Shopping Center, also known as Cherry Creek Center, is a shopping mall about 3+1⁄2 miles southeast of downtown Denver, Colorado in the Cherry...
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    emigrant settlers out of their lands. List of Colorado Territory Civil War units All biographies Sand Creek "The Indian War, 2 Jun 1867, Page 8 - The New...
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    Historic Sites within Colorado are: Amache National Historic Site near Granada Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta Sand Creek Massacre National...
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    Cripple Creek is a statutory city that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 1,155 at the 2020 United States...
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    force of 800 troops of the Colorado home guard, after heavy drinking, attacked an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek, murdering between 150...
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    territorial charter municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 1,118 at the 2020 United...
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    facts about pika in Colorado". Denver: KUSA. Retrieved 3 February 2022. "Yellow Bellied Marmot". Clear Creek County, CO: Clear Creek County Tourism Bureau...
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    Denver (/ˈdɛnvər/ DEN-vər) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715...
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    third-most-populous city in the State of Colorado and the 52nd-most-populous city in the United States. Aurora is a principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood Metropolitan...
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  • superintendent of Indian affairs of the Colorado Territory, lost his government position as a result of the November 1864 Sand Creek massacre (which was carried out...
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    Dawson, John Frank. Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing...
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    the Denver metropolitan area. The population was 58,512 at the 2020 census. Parker is now the 19th most populous municipality in the state of Colorado. The...
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    City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest...
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  • into Denver City) in 1858 and touched off the gold rush to the Rockies. The confluence of Clear Creek and Ralston Creek, the site of Colorado's first...
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    State of Colorado is divided into 64 counties. Two of these counties, the City and County of Broomfield and the City and County of Denver, have consolidated...
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    of the area down Clear Creek from the historic Black Hawk townsite lining State Highway 119 has flourished. Gamblers from Denver pass the Blackhawk casinos...
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    have lived in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States. People born elsewhere but raised in Denver are marked with a §. People born and...
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    Academy Colorado Academy - Jefferson County Denver Academy Denver Academy of Torah Denver Christian Schools Denver Jewish Day School Denver Waldorf School...
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