Showing Tag: "indian" (Show all posts)

The Beecher Island Battlefield

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,

Sometimes there are things listed on maps that sound interesting, but when you try to go there's not a single sign for it until you're already at the spot; such was the case with the Beecher Island Battlefield.

The name on the map sounded interesting enough to my friend and I, so we decided to head that way. After some good navigation on his part we arrived at the small site near the nice town of Wray, Colorado.

An obelisk marks the spot where for nine days in 1868 50 U.S. Scouts held their gro...
Continue reading ...

Picture Canyon and the Comanche National Grasslands

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,

The Comanche National Grasslands in southeast Colorado is worth the drive to hike and enjoy one of the four canyons in the area. Historical markers from the Santa Fe Trail are also nearby.

After our trip to Oklahoma, my friend and I made our way

up to Colorado on some dirt roads to check out the Picture Canyon, of which we only knew from a name on on map we were given at Clayton Lake State Park in New Mexico. But, the name piqued our interested enough to make the journey to Baca County, ...

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,

"At a distance it presents a handsome

appearance, being castle-like with towers

at its angles...the design...answering all purposes

of protection, defense, and as a residence."

~ George R. Gibson, 1846, soldier

The last stop on our southeastern Colorado daytrip was the National Historic Site of Bent's Old Fort. Sitting on the north side of the Arkansas River, it is just a short drive east from La Junta, Colorado on Hwy 194.