CASPER — The soldiers ignominiously known as the “bloodless third” had not seen the action promised to them when they enlisted nearly 100 days earlier in the summer of 1864.

Former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a historic figure in Colorado and national politics and a deeply respected Native American leader, has died at the age of 92. His family confirmed his ...

DENVER (AP) — Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the former senator and U.S. representative of Colorado known for his passionate advocacy of Native American issues, died Tuesday. He was 92. Campbell died of ...

In 1864, over 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho villagers—mostly women, children, and the elderly—were brutally murdered by U.S. troops under a flag of truce. This is the shocking, definitive account. Supreme ...

When the attack came, Black Kettle believed it must have been a mistake. The old chief gathered a 33-star United States flag that had been given to him a few years before as a sign of friendship with ...

In the days after Thanksgiving, we should remember that 161 years ago – on Nov. 29, 1864 – Colorado experienced the deadliest day in its history. On that day, more than 230 women, children, and elders ...

Nov. 29 is a pivotal date in Colorado’s history. On that date in 1864, in what was then the Colorado Territory, more than 600 soldiers of the Colorado Volunteer Cavalry attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho ...

On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, killing an estimated 230 people. Also on this date: In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr.

The Sand Creek Massacre comes to mind in reading about U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, a decorated combat veteran who declared that members of the U.S. military must refuse illegal orders. “No one has to carry ...