The View from Sand Creek

Looking at the dark history of the Colorado plains

View of Big Sandy Creek, as it is known today. Site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre.

I grew up in Colorado in the 1970s. As I age, I look back on Colorado at that time with increasing fondness. Popular culture may remember the world of my childhood with John Denver songs and Craig Morton’s “all orange” Denver Broncos, but the Colorado of my childhood was…