Reports of Colonel John M. Chivington - Dispatched following the attack at Sand Creek.
Reports of Chivington's officers - Dispatched following the Sand Creek attack.
Editorial articles from the Rocky Mountain News - Published after the Sand Creek attack.
Major Wynkoop Report - Investigation into Chivington's attack at Sand Creek.
Chivington Testimony - Interrogatories propounded to John M. Chivington by the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
To the People of Colorado - Defense of Sand Creek Massacre by John M. Chivington, June 1865.
John Evans' reply to the Committee on the Conduct of the War (The Chivington Massacre, pp 77-87)
Sand Creek Documents - Official records and documents about the Sand Creek Massacre.
Selected Books, Articles & Manuscripts Relating to John M. Chivington:
Bensing, Tom. Silas Soule: A Short, Eventful Life of Moral Courage. Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing, 2012
Cahill, Kevin. Sand Creek, a Novel by Kevin Cahill. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2005.
Carey, Raymond G. The Puzzle of Sand Creek. The Colorado Magazine, Vol. XLI. No. 4. 1964. Denver Public Library.
_________ Colonel Chivington, Brigadier General Connor, and Sand Creek. Denver Westerners Brand Book. Vol. XLI. Denver, CO, 1960. Denver Public Library.
_________ The Bloodless Third Regiment. Colorado Magazine, Vol 38, No.4, 1961. Denver Public Library.
Chivington, John M. The First Colorado Regiment. Denver, Colorado, October 18, 1884. Colorado State Historical Society, Denver, CO.
________ Papers, Manuscript of John M. Chivington 1862-1892. Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library.
________ The Pet Lambs. Denver Republican, April 20-May 18, 1890. Denver Public Library.
Clarke, Charles E. The Chivington Massacre, A Participant in the Battle Denies That It was a Massacre. Colorado Miner, Georgetown, Clear Creek County, Colorado, Saturday, 14 October 1876, Page 1. (Special thanks to Christopher Wynkoop)
Convery, William J. / Schrum, Keith. Saving the Soule-Cramer Letters. Colorado Heritage, November/December 2014.
Cramer, Joseph A. Letter to Major E.W. Wynkoop, December 19, 1864, regarding the Sand Creek Massacre.
Dormis, John T. ed. The Chivingtons. Masonic News-Digest 36, June 28, 1957.
Dunn, William R. I Stand by Sand Creek: a Defense of Colonel John M. Chivington and the Third Colorado Calvary. Ft. Collins, CO: Old Army Press, 1985.
Goertner, Thomas G. Reflections of a Frontier Soldier – The Sand Creek Affair as revealed in the Diary of Samuel F. Tappan. Thesis presented to University of Denver, 1959.
Hoig, Stan. The Sand Creek Massacre. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.
Kelsey, Harry. Background to Sand Creek. Colorado Magazine 45, no. 4, Fall 1968. Denver Public Library.
Kraft, Louis. Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
__________ Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road From Sand Creek. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.
Lecompte, Janet. Sand Creek. Colorado Magazine, Vol. XLI. No. 4. 1964. Denver Public Library.
Mellor, William J. The Military Investigation of Col. John M. Chivington Following the Sand Creek Massacre. Chronicles of Oklahoma 16, no. 4, 1938.
Michno, Gregory F. The Real Villains of Sand Creek. Wild West, December 2003.
Mumey, Nolie. John Milton Chivington, the Misunderstood Man. 1956 Brand Book of the Denver Westerners. Denver Public Library.
Myers, J. Jay. The Sand Creek Massacre. Wild West, December 1998.
Perrigo, Lynn I., ed. Major Hal Sayre's Diary of the Sand Creek Campaign. Colorado Magazine 15, 1938. Denver Public Library.
Roberts, Gary L. Sand Creek, Tragedy and Symbol. Norman: University of Oklahoma University Microfilms Intnl.,1984. Available at the Denver Public Library Western History Department - call: C970.3 C428rob
__________ Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2016.
Rocky Mountain News (weekly-daily) - Obituary of John M. Chivington
Soule, Silas S. Two letters to Sophia Soule (mother) regarding the Sand Creek Massacre.
___________ Letter to Major E.W. Wynkoop, December 14, 1864 - regarding the Sand Creek Massacre.
Tappan, Samuel F. Unpublished Autobiography. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Historical Society.
________ Diary. Microfilm, Colorado State Historical Society, Denver, CO.
White, Lonnie J. From Bloodless to Bloody: The Third Colorado Cavalry and the Sand Creek Massacre. Journal of the West 5, 1967.
Wynkoop, Edward W. The Tall Chief, the Autobiography of Edward W. Wynkoop. Christopher Gerboth, ed. Denver: Colorado State Historical Society, Monograph 9, Essays and Monographs in Colorado History, 1994. (Available at the Colorado History Museum book store - 13th & Broadway, Denver)
Some excerpts are reprinted from "Sand Creek" by Kevin Cahill
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