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East Turkey Creek Road, Pearce, Arizona (private property) 31°51′57″N 109°25′08″W / 31.865868°N 109.418852°W / 31.865868; -109. Nationality
Turkey Creek was part of areawide disasters including the all-time record Great Flood of 1844, which relocated the stream's mouth from the Missouri River westward to the Kaw (Kansas) River and erased all human settlement of the French Bottoms. [6] Another was the Great Flood of 1951.
The U.S. Army's Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho on November 29, 1864, caused a large number of Indians on the Kansas and Colorado Great Plains to intensify hostilities against the U.S. Army and white settlers. On January 1, 1865, the Indians met on Cherry Creek (near present-day St. Francis, Kansas) to plan revenge.
The Benders of Kansas. Wichita: Kan-Okla Publishing, 1913 [51] Jonusas, Susan. Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier. New York: Viking, 2022. ISBN 978-1-9848-7983-7; Katz, Brigit. "The Kansas Homestead Where America's First Serial Killer Family Committed Its Crimes Is Up for Sale".
The site of the massacre is preserved by the Kansas Historical Society as the Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site, originally called the Marais des Cygnes Massacre Memorial Park. [4] The first commemoration at the site was two stone markers erected by men of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment in 1864, although these monuments had been ...
Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado: Members of the Colorado Militia, in retaliation for theft and violence by Cheyenne Indians against settlers, attacked a village of Cheyenne, killing up to 600 men, women and children at Sand Creek in Kiowa County. 70–600 [263] [264] 1865: January 14: American Ranch Massacre: Colorado
Kansas Raiders is a 1950 American Western film directed by Ray Enright, and stars Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, and Scott Brady. It is set during the American Civil War and involves Jesse James coming under the influence of William Quantrill.
Vermillion wound up in Kansas in the late 1870s. From Dodge City, Kansas, he went to Tombstone, Arizona (Arizona Territory), where he possibly previously knew the Earps and Doc Holliday. He was listed by Virgil Earp as special policeman (i.e., deputy city policeman) June 22, 1881. This is the day of the large Tombstone fire of 1881, with which ...