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.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The brake lights ahead of you on Interstate 70 seem to stretch to the end of the horizon. Add frequent mountain snow to the equation, passenger cars without ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's one of the darkest moments in Colorado history: the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. Today, through the letters he wrote, we learn about a man who refused to take part: Capt. Silas Soule. Then, from ...

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 ...