Collection
Memory & commemoration
31 records
Monuments, markers, reunions, street names and the arguments about all of them.
- Record
Camp Weld historical marker
The Historical Marker Database (HMdb)
The catalogue record for the 1934 granite marker, including a transcription of the inscription.
- Record
Photograph of the deteriorating Camp Weld plaque
HMdb
Photograph documenting the marker's deteriorating plaque.
- Archive
The Colorado Magazine, Vol. XI No. 2 (PDF)
Colorado Historical Society · March 1934
State historical society account of the camp and the dedication of its monument.
- Newspaper
Public dedication of the Camp Weld marker
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Feb. 23, 1934
Contemporary coverage of the three-ton monument's dedication on February 22, 1934.
- Institution
The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever (traveling exhibition)
History Colorado
History Colorado's exhibit material on the massacre.
- Institution
Sand Creek Massacre memorial project
Sand Creek Massacre Foundation
Descendant and foundation-led work on the massacre's memory.
- Newspaper
“Denver’s $30,000,000 Scalp Carnival”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 30, 1927
Further Denver coverage of the December 1864 celebrations.
- Newspaper
Colorado’s 150th anniversary a somber occasion for Native Americans who lost territory
The Denver Post
Reporting on how the anniversary of Colorado statehood is experienced by Native communities.
- Newspaper
Chivington honored at Denver City Hall; Jacob Downing’s remarks
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Sept. 15, 1883
Coverage of Chivington's continuing public standing in Denver in 1883.
- Newspaper
Coverage of the 1883 Chivington celebration at Denver City Hall
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Sept. 15, 1883
Companion 1883 coverage of the veterans' gathering.
- Newspaper
W. N. Byers defends the Sand Creek “sham battle”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Sept. 20, 1898
Promotion of the 1898 City Park sham battle.
- Newspaper
“Fifteen thousand people drawn to City Park to witness a fiasco”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Oct. 6, 1898
A less flattering account of the same event.
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Chivington portrait hung at the Historical Society (“Sand Creek corner”)
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · Oct. 30, 1898
1898 portrait coverage of Chivington in the Denver press.
- Newspaper
Unveiling of the Civil War monument at the State Capitol
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · July 25, 1909
The Civil War monument at the State Capitol, listing Sand Creek among engagements.
- Newspaper
George E. Cranmer defends the “Chivington Boulevard” proposal
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 22, 1941
The 1941 argument over naming a Denver parkway for Chivington.
- Newspaper
State Rep. Leonard H. Hudnall protests the proposed name
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 22, 1941
Opposing view in the 1941 street-naming debate.
- Newspaper
Council names the street Hale Parkway
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Feb. 4, 1941
The outcome: the street becomes Hale Parkway.
- Newspaper
Colorado Legislature votes to change the monument’s “Sand Creek” designation
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · May 6, 1998
1998 debate over the Capitol monument.
- Newspaper
Cometsevah and Halaas argue to preserve the original text
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Aug. 1, 1998
Argument for preserving the monument with added interpretation.
- Newspaper
Corrective interpretive plaque installed at the Capitol
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Nov. 30, 2002
The 2002 explanatory plaque acknowledging Sand Creek as a massacre.
- Newspaper
Sand Creek memorial could replace Civil War monument at the Colorado Capitol
Westword · 2020
Coverage of the 2020 removal of the Capitol statue.
- Institution
Agnes Wright Spring, Colorado State Historian
History Colorado
Biographical record for the state historian who pushed for a Camp Weld memorial.
- NewspaperLibrary gateway
Denver Post report on the remaining Camp Weld building and Agnes Wright Spring’s appeal
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · July 1960
Reporting on the proposed early-1960s Camp Weld memorial.
- NewspaperLibrary gateway
Denver Post report that the memorial effort was abandoned
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · 1962
Coverage of the memorial project being dropped.
- NewspaperLibrary gateway
Denver Post report on demolition of the last likely Camp Weld structure
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · 1962
The demolition of the surviving structure associated with the site.
- Institution
Fort Chambers / Poor Farm Management Plan
City of Boulder
Boulder's project page for the Fort Chambers / Poor Farm site.
- Report
Fort Chambers interpretive framework (PDF)
City of Boulder
The interpretive framework developed for that site.
- Institution
Fort Chambers and the Sand Creek Massacre
City of Boulder
Material connecting Fort Chambers to the Sand Creek campaign.
- Institution
Tribal consultation program
City of Boulder
Documentation of Boulder's tribal consultation process.
- Institution
City and Tribal representatives seek input on concept stewardship plan
City of Boulder
Boulder's stewardship commitments for the site.
- Report
“What’s in a Name” report
University of Colorado
University research on naming, commemoration and institutional memory.