News to White People: We're on Your Side

But Soule is like the whitest dude in town. He even rode a silver horse. That's seriously white.



[RMN, March 2, 1865, p.3]

"...half breeds, Indian traders and sympathisizers..." Some feel that Sand Creek was not just about wiping out the Indians there but about wiping out a whole way of life that had been established before the gold rush, in which white traders and ranchers on the Santa Fe trail interacted and inter-married with the Indians. That whole situation was disgusting to Byers and Chivington and their Brothers. Actions during the campaign, from the house arrest of Prowers to the murder of Jack Smith, tend to support the view that this unique sector of the regional culture was targeted along with the Indian camp.