Joseph Hutchison didn’t set out to write a poem about Silas Soule. But he’d been thinking for a while about the Sand Creek Massacre — a dark chapter in Colorado’s past that he’d never learned about ...

While the University of Denver explores the role that John Evans, its founder, had to the Sand Creek Massacre, some people have moved beyond study to action. Aaron Sears, for example, has written a ...

“It was a horrible scene and I would not let my Company fire. It looked too hard for me to see little children begging for their lives, have their brains beat out like dogs.” – Capt. Silas Soule, from ...

DENVER – One by one, the runners walked by the simple marble gravestone of one of two U.S. Army officers who refused to fire on their ancestors in one of the worst atrocities in the settlement of the ...

DENVER — One by one, the runners walked by the simple marble gravestone of one of two U.S. Army officers who refused to fire on their ancestors in one of the worst atrocities in the settlement of the ...

DENVER – Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members are marking the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, one of the deadliest massacres in American history. They're paying tribute to ...

“All humans are imperfect” was a common reaction to my suggestion of renaming our neighborhood after an unsung hero. In the summer of 2020, that thinking prevailed. My neighbors chose Central Park as ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The famous Jayhawk raiders known as the “Immortal Ten.” Silas Soule is ...

On this 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, an effort is underway to scrub Colorado maps of the name Chivington. Longmont did so in 2004, replacing Chivington Drive with the cheerier name of ...

When 16-year-old Silas Soule and his family moved to Kansas to help settle Lawrence in 1854, the Maine native quickly found himself in the thick of danger. The new family home became an underground ...