Temperatures in the high 90s as we headed to Colorado. Mountain Time begins in the last county in Kansas, which is Greeley County, and it has towns named Tribune and Horace! We found the Sand Creek Massacre site to be a modest one, with a horrific tale to tell of military misconduct: of women and children shot down and then butchered. Many Colorado soldiers refused to participate because the tribes were flying the U.S. flag and believed themselves to be at peace with the U'S. Army. But they were not at the fort where they were supposed to be (because they were starving there), and a Col. Chivington wanted to teach them a lesson. It is a stomach-churning story, but it is important to remember. Pleasant stop at the Welcome Center in Lamar where they have a Madonna of the Trail (Santa Fe) statue. We also stopped at Bent's Old Fort where much better dealings with the native tribes are recalled. On to the KOA in La Junta and a wonderful dinner at Felisa's Restaurant. More thunderstorms, but no trouble. Lots of beautiful wild sunflowers. We figured out the the terrible corn crops we had been seeing were actually sorghum fields.
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