that was a colorado militia that road out of denver that attacked a village that was nonhostile, it was a friendly village. they massacred people. as a result of that, the summer after 1865, you had a lot of skirmishes and fights with the native tribes a direct result of the sand creek massacre. one of the locations where is problems occurred was here. we had the battle of platte bridge. the goal of the tribes were to get rid of the bridge. the bridge was a visual symbol, a structure that could be attacked that represented all of the migration and the people moving out here. their goal was to get rid of this. so early in the morning we had the battle of platte bridge. there is a young lieutenant from the 11 ohio calvary named casper collins. he is passing through the fort on the day of the battle. he was to lead the 11th kansas calvary. they get across the bridge and not even a mile away and they are ambushed by the cheyenne and the arapaho that are gathered together. they wheel around and race back to the fort. casper collins and four other soldiers are killed. amazingly, the other guy

that was a colorado militia that road out of denver and attacked the village which was friendly. they really massacred people. as a result of that, the following summer in 1865, you skirmishes and fights and problems with the native tribes as originals -- as a direct result of the sentry -- of the sand creek massacre. one of the locations were problems occurred was here. we had the battle of platte bridge and red butte in 1865. the goal was to get rid of the bridge. the bridge was a visual symbol, structure that could be attacked that represented all of the migration and all of these people moving west. the tribes goal was to get rid of this. early in the morning, we had the battle of platte bridge. there was a young lieutenant named caspar collins. he is passing through this fort on the day of the battle. he was ordered to leave the 11th kansas volunteer cavalry soldiers out to meet and army supply wagon that were coming back from supplying points further west. that morning he rides out. it takes 20 guys with him. they get across the bridge and not even a mile away and they are