Collection
Testimony & investigation
9 records
What officers and officials said afterward, and the inquiries that collected it.
- Newspaper
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.
- Book
The Battle of Sand Creek — Morse Coffin (PDF transcription)
Morse Coffin's participant account, written by a Third Colorado soldier.
- 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.
- 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.
- Report
John Evans Study Report (2014)
University of Denver · 2014
University of Denver report on John Evans's responsibility for Sand Creek.
- Report
John Evans Study Report — full text (PDF)
University of Denver · 2014
The full PDF of the University of Denver report.
- Report
Report of the John Evans Study Committee
Northwestern University
Northwestern University's parallel study of Evans's culpability.
- Newspaper
Reporting on Silas Soule and the Sand Creek Massacre
The Colorado Sun
Modern reporting on Silas Soule, his testimony and his murder in Denver.
- Record
Congressional testimony on atrocities committed at Sand Creek
Hunt's testimony in the record of the period.