What to see in America . 2 What to See in America sand than stream, rose in fury, swept away the flimsybridges, and destroyed twenty lives and nearly a milliondollars worth of property. The Indians went on the war-path that year, killed a number of persons near the city,cut off all communications with the East, and left Denvergreatly alarmed with only six weeks supply of food. OnNovember 29 of the same year a government force of sevenhundred men made a surprise attack at dawn on an Indiancamp beside Big Sandy Creek, forty miles northeast fromFort Lyon, which was a frontier post on the north ba
What to see in America . 2 What to See in America sand than stream, rose in fury, swept away the flimsybridges, and destroyed twenty lives and nearly a milliondollars worth of property. The Indians went on the war-path that year, killed a number of persons near the city,cut off all communications with the East, and left Denvergreatly alarmed with only six weeks supply of food. OnNovember 29 of the same year a government force of sevenhundred men made a surprise attack at dawn on an Indiancamp beside Big Sandy Creek, forty miles northeast fromFort Lyon, which was a frontier post on the north bank of the Arkansas, thirtymiles east of LaJunta. The soldiersshowed a savagerywhich the foe couldhardly have ex-ceeded. In thisSand Creek Mas-sacre, as it is called,they slew aboutnine hundred men,women, and chil-dren . Hardly one ofthe Indians whites lost tenin killed and fatallywounded. In the several pre-ceding years a largeamount of gold hadbeen taken out ofthe easily workedplacer mines, butnow the supply. Aspen Grove in Estes Park Colorado 403 seemed exhausted,and not until properprocesses were dis-covered and adoptedfor mining and orereducing was there anew boom. TheUnion Pacific Rail-road reached Denverin 1870, and theplace afterward rap-idly developed intothe Queen City ofthe Plains. It is thestates capital and largestRocky Mountains loom in
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