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 1868Howbert, Irving
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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
Howbert, Irving
El Paso County, Colo. -- History; Indians of North America -- Colorado; Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864
My brothers told me that while eating their luncheon in the milk house
near our dwelling on Bear Creek, they were alarmed by the excited barking
of their dog. They ran out to see what was the matter, and, looking
across on the present site of Colorado Springs, saw a group of horsemen
whom they immediately knew to be Indians, pursuing another horseman, whom
they at once conjectured was Charley Everhart. A moment later the band
seemed to be grouped around some object, which doubtless was the time
when the Indians were scalping young Everhart. The boys witnessed the
savages race down over the flat in their pursuit of Baldwin, and while
this was in progress, they counted the horsemen and found that there were
thirty-five in the band. The boys then ran up the hill to the east of
the house, heard the shot, and witnessed what I have already described
concerning the shooting of Baldwin. They then saw the band divide, one
party going out on the plains and the other down the creek. Becoming
alarmed for their own safety, they had started to run to some of the
neighbors on Cheyenne Creek, when I met them. As soon as I had heard
their story, which assured me that the Indians had gone off to the east
and that there was no immediate danger to the boys, I rode back to the
harvest-field where we had abandoned the reaper, hitched to the wagon,
and drove to town. Later in the afternoon, the Robbins family, whose two
boys had been killed, as I have related, came by our Bear Creek ranch
on their way to Colorado City, and took my brothers to town with them.
By the time we reached Colorado City, the bodies of Everhart and the
two Robbins boys had been brought in. The party that went after Baldwin
found him alive, but supposed him to be mortally wounded. It was thought
that he could not possibly live more than a day or two at most, but, to
the surprise of everybody, in a short time he began to recover and in
a month or so was apparently well again.
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