E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57252-h.htm or 57252-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57252/57252-h/57252-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57252/57252-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/indiansofpikespe00howbuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration: Pike's Peak From a painting by Charles Craig] THE INDIANS OF THE PIKE'S PEAK REGION Including an Account of the Battle of Sand Creek, and of Occurrences in El Paso County, Colorado, during the War with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, in 1864 and 1868 by IRVING HOWBERT Illustrated The Knickerbocker Press New York 1914 Copyright, 1914 by Irving Howbert CONTENTS PAGE THE TRIBES OF THE PIKE'S PEAK REGION 1 TRAILS, MINERAL SPRINGS, GAME, ETC. 27 THE INDIAN TROUBLES OF 1864 75 THE THIRD COLORADO AND THE BATTLE OF SAND CREEK 93 A DEFENSE OF THE BATTLE OF SAND CREEK 114 A DEFENSE OF THE BATTLE OF SAND CREEK—_CONTINUED_ 147 THE INDIAN WAR OF 1868 187 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE PIKE'S PEAK _Frontispiece_ OURAY 60 COLONEL JOHN M. CHIVINGTON 117 GOVERNOR JOHN EVANS 123 INTRODUCTION For the most part this book is intentionally local in its character. As its title implies, it relates principally to the Indian tribes that have occupied the region around Pike's Peak during historic times.