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Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

Eads, CO

This sacred landscape preserves the site where U.S. troops attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho village in 1864, killing mostly women, children and elders. NPS trails and overlooks interpret the event and its continuing legacy; access includes several miles of dirt road.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/sand/index.htm

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