You Can’t Study the Past if You Can’t Find the Past

FREE Public Lecture - The Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society hosts Ray Sumner, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Colorado State University, reporting on his work on the Julesburg Project.
Julesburg Station and Camp Rankin, located in northeastern Colorado along the South Platte River, were chosen as the initial and last battle of a six-week campaign in early 1865 by the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota Native American tribes responding to the U.S. Army’s 1864 massacre at Sand Creek. This area was chosen due to its isolated location with abundant stage company warehouses and stations, ranches, telegraph lines, and military outposts along a 100-mile stretch of the Overland Trail. This Native response was overshadowed by later well-known battles of the Indian Wars and in the intervening 150-years exact locations of sites were lost to history. Advances in airborne remote sensing capabilities now allow for a comprehensive landscape level analysis of the entire campaign area.