Finding Sand Creek
Subtitle: History, Archeology, And the 1864 Massacre Site
Contributors: Christine Whitacre (Foreword)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: September 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780806138015
Subjects: Nonfiction - General; Native American; History - General History; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Non-Classifiable; Archaeology; United States - State & Local - West; Military - United States
First sentence: At dawn on November 29, 1864, more than seven hundred U.S. volunteer soldiers commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington attacked a village of about 500 Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory.