Collection
Newspapers
35 records
Denver and Colorado press, 1861 to the present. Some links sit behind a library gateway.
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Rocky Mountain News description of the new camp’s 30-acre enclosure
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Oct. 24, 1861
Early reporting describing the camp's roughly 30-acre square enclosure.
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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.
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Colorado Historical Society receives Sand Creek “relics”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · March 8, 1932
Report of Camp Weld relics recovered near the marked corner.
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Denver Post report on Civil War items excavated near Eighth and Vallejo
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · February 1937
Artifacts uncovered in 1937, corroborating the location established in print.
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“where the Denver and Rio Grande shops are now located”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 27, 1901
Places the old camp on the Denver & Rio Grande shop grounds.
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Camp Weld recollection (1908–09 account)
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · April 23, 1909
1909 account including Lt. Clark Dunn's recollection that soldiers fired first.
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Camp Weld location account (1920)
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · July 11, 1920
One of a series of retrospective newspaper accounts locating the camp.
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Camp Weld location account (1923)
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Feb. 16, 1923
Retrospective account of Camp Weld in the Denver press.
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Camp Weld location account (1924)
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Aug. 6, 1924
Retrospective account of Camp Weld in the Denver press.
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Camp Weld location account (1929)
Colorado Historic Newspapers · July 29, 1929
A 1929 account placing the camp on the railroad shop grounds.
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Gov. John Evans’ August 1864 proclamation
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Aug. 13, 1864
Gov. Evans's August 1864 proclamation as printed in Denver.
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Published account of the council with Evans and Chivington
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Sept. 13, 1865
Contemporary report of the September 28, 1864 council at Camp Weld.
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Report of the killing of Cheyenne people in northeast Colorado
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Oct. 10, 1864
October 1864 Denver coverage in the weeks between the council and the massacre.
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“Cheyenne scalps are getting as thick here now as toads in Egypt”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Dec. 22, 1864
Reporting on scalps circulating in Denver after the regiment's return.
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“Denver’s $30,000,000 Scalp Carnival”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 30, 1927
Further Denver coverage of the December 1864 celebrations.
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George Bent on the spring 1864 attacks and the killing of Lean Bear
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · Nov. 6, 1905
George Bent's account, printed in a Denver paper, describing the killing of Lean Bear.
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Reporting on Silas Soule and the Sand Creek Massacre
The Colorado Sun
Modern reporting on Silas Soule, his testimony and his murder in Denver.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Council names the street Hale Parkway
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Feb. 4, 1941
The outcome: the street becomes Hale Parkway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sand Creek memorial could replace Civil War monument at the Colorado Capitol
Westword · 2020
Coverage of the 2020 removal of the Capitol statue.
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Elbridge B. Sopris recalls Sand Creek
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 30, 1927
Retrospective Denver coverage connected to the Sopris family and early Colorado service.
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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.
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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.
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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.