Collection
Primary sources
13 records
Contemporary documents: proclamations, diaries, participant accounts and reports.
- Newspaper
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.
- Book
The Battle of Sand Creek — Morse Coffin (PDF transcription)
Morse Coffin's participant account, written by a Third Colorado soldier.
- Book
The Battle of Sand Creek — Morse Coffin (1960s republication)
A later reprint of Coffin's account.
- Newspaper
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.
- Newspaper
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.
- Newspaper
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.
- Newspaper
“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.
- Archive
The Colorado Magazine, Vol. XV No. 2 (PDF)
State Historical Society of Colorado · March 1938
Hal Sayr's diary, published by the state historical society; records the December 22 return.
- Archive
The Colorado Magazine, Vol. XV No. 4 (PDF) — J. N. Hall article
State Historical Society of Colorado · July 1938
The continuation of the Sayr diary publication.
- NewspaperLibrary gateway
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.
- Newspaper
Veteran recalls Camp Weld standing where the Burnham Yard shops now stand
Pueblo Sun (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 8, 1910
A 1910 account placing McLain's battery at Camp Weld and describing the spring attacks.
- Archive
Arapaho and Cheyenne delegation at Camp Weld, 1864 (photograph record)
Colorado Encyclopedia · September 1864
The best-known photograph of the Camp Weld delegation, made September 28, 1864.
- Archive
Camp Weld photograph including Arapaho and Cheyenne leaders
Denver Public Library, Western History Collection
A second archival image from the same sitting, with different caption identifications.