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1864’s Turning Point: Hungate Family Murdered

This article is part of a series by the National Park Service concerning the 150th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. Often given as a cause for the savagery of the massacre on Sand Creek, the murder of the Hungate Family forms one of the mysteries of 1864’s sordid history. Nathan (29 years), Ellen (25), Laura […]