Just after dawn on November 29, 1864, elements of the First and Third Colorado Regiments commanded by Col. John M. Chivington attacked a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians camped beside a dry streambed known as Big Sandy Creek. The ensuing battle—commonly known as the Sand Creek Massacre—left upwards of 150 mostly women and children dead . . . or so popular history would have us believe, a view put forth by Linda R. Wommack in “Take No Prisoners,” True West, Jan/Feb 200
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