Prowers County, Colorado -- Genealogy

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Neighboring counties: Baca County, Bent County, Kiowa County, Hamilton County, KS

Established: 1889
Parent County: Bent
County Seat: Lamar
Population 2000: 14,483
Location: 37:58:00 N 102:24:00 W
Land area: 1645 square miles

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Brief Historical Sketch

Prowers County was created from Bent County on May 3, 1889. It has an area 39 miles east and west, 42 miles north and south. Named after John W. Prowers, who was a leading pioneer and cattleman in the lower Arkansas valley region. John Wesley Prowers married Amache the daughter of Cheyenne Indian Chief One Eye.

In 1864 Chief One Eye negotiated a truce between the Cheyenne and Arapaho and the U.S. government. According to the truce the Cheyenne were guaranteed a safe camping area for the winter at their reservation along Sand Creek.

On the morning of November 28, 1864, soldiers from the Colorado First Volunteer Calvary rode onto the ranch and held both the Prowers as well as Amache hostage. At the camp along Sand Creek, Colonel John Chivington ordered his regiment to attack the Indians. The raid became known as the Sand Creek massacre. The massacre claimed the lives of between 150 and 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho. Among the dead was Chief One Eye.

Between August 27, 1942 and August 15, 1945, near Granada 7,567 Japanese-American evacuees were placed in Camp Amache, internment camp.

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