Qualla: Battle of Julesburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/r/0/battle-of-julesburg-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Julesburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg Battle of Julesburg: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg/ Photo credit Henry Farny, Public domain. George Bent watched from the bluffs as Big Crow and nine decoys galloped toward Fort Rankin, then wheeled their horses and fled in feigned panic. The plan was elegant: lure the soldiers out, then spring a thousand warriors from behind the ridgeline. Bent, half Cheyenne and half white, had chosen his side. Six weeks earlier, his mother's people had been slaughtered at Sand Creek. Now, on this frozen January morning in 1865, near the Overland Trail station at Julesburg, Colorado, the reckoning had begun.

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/r/0/battle-of-julesburg-wp/9xr0-battle-of-julesburg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Julesburg: Ashes of Sand Creek https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg/ Photo credit Henry Farny, Public domain. The Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864, changed everything on the Colorado plains. Cheyenne and Arapaho camps flying American flags and white surrender banners were attacked by Colorado militia, leaving hundreds dead, mostly women and children. The survivors scattered north...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/r/0/battle-of-julesburg-wp/9xr0-battle-of-julesburg-ashes-of-sand-creek.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Julesburg: The Decoy Trap https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg/ Photo credit Henry Farny, Public domain. What makes the Battle of Julesburg historically unusual is its primary source: George Bent, who participated in the attack and later recounted it to anthropologists George Bird Grinnell and George E. Hyde. His account provides a rare Indigenous perspective on frontier warfare. Th...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/r/0/battle-of-julesburg-wp/9xr0-battle-of-julesburg-the-decoy-trap.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Julesburg: The Valley Burns https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg/ Photo credit Henry Farny, Public domain. With the soldiers pinned inside Fort Rankin, the warriors moved freely through Julesburg. They looted the stagecoach station, the store, the warehouse, carrying away massive quantities of supplies while artillery rounds from the fort fell harmlessly around them. But this was only...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/r/0/battle-of-julesburg-wp/9xr0-battle-of-julesburg-the-valley-burns.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Julesburg: Crossing the Ice https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg/ Photo credit Henry Farny, Public domain. On February 2, 1865, the great caravan crossed the frozen South Platte west of Julesburg, heading north. Several thousand women, children, and livestock filed across the ice while the warriors made one final visit to the station. They took whatever remained and burned every build...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/r/0/battle-of-julesburg-wp/9xr0-battle-of-julesburg-crossing-the-ice.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Julesburg: A Voice from Both Sides https://qualla.com/battle-of-julesburg/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author Courtesy of History Colorado, Public domain. George Bent's account of Julesburg matters because frontier history is typically told by the victors of the larger war. Bent straddled an impossible divide: educated in St. Louis, son of trader William Bent and Owl Woman of the Cheyenne, he chose to fight alongside his mother's p...

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