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In the gunfight that ensued, cowboys killed six Mountain Ute Indians. It was the last major confrontation between Ute Indians and white settlers in Colorado. [4] Ute War (1887) Bluff War (1914–1915) Bluff Skirmish (1921) Posey War (1923)
Meeker Massacre, or Meeker Incident, White River War, Ute War, or the Ute Campaign [1]), took place on September 29, 1879 in Colorado. Members of a band of Ute Indians ( Native Americans ) attacked the Indian agency on their reservation, killing the Indian agent Nathan Meeker and his 10 male employees and taking five women and children as hostages.
It was part of a series of clashes between the Ute people and Anglo settlers sometimes termed the Ute Wars. The combatants were 30 to 65 Ute and Paiute people and about three dozen white settlers, mostly Anglo cowboys and miners from southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The settlers sought revenge against the Utes for other conflicts in ...
The Posey War began in February 1923 because of a relatively minor affair in which two young Ute males robbed a sheep ranch at Cahone Mesa, assaulted the owner, slaughtered a calf, and burned a bridge. The boys were members of Posey's band; the first was the youngest son of a man named Joe Bishop and the second the son of Sanup.
The Plains Indian Wars directly affected the region during westward expansion. By the end of the Nineteenth Century, Colorado became a focal point of labor violence and the Coal Wars , with instances of large-scale armed conflict between workers, private detectives, and state soldiers and police stretching into the 1920s.
The Santa Fe Weekly Gazette reported that the action "was one of the severest battles that ever took place between American troops and Red Indians." [8] It was one of the first significant battles between American and Apache forces and was also part of the Ute Wars, in which Ute warriors attempted to resist Westward expansion in the Four ...
In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.
The Battle of Ojo Caliente Canyon, or simply the Battle of Ojo Caliente was an engagement of the Jicarilla War on April 8, 1854. Combatants were Jicarilla Apache warriors, and their Ute allies, against the United States Army. The skirmish was fought as result of the pursuit of the Jicarilla after the Battle of Cieneguilla just over a week ...