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Bent’s Fort Celebrates Holidays, 1840s-Style
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site will celebrate the holidays in 1840s fashion beginning on Friday evening, December 4 and continuing all through the day on Saturday, December 5. Events begin with guided candlelight tours through the fort starting at 6:30 pm on Friday, December 4. Groups depart at 15 minute intervals and are led […]
VPG | Nov 24, 2015 | Comments 0
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 […]
VPG | Jun 03, 2014 | Comments 0