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            Highlands Ranch High School - Mr. Sedivy 
              Highlands Ranch, Colorado 
             
            Colorado's 
              Infamous Cannibal, Alferd Packer 
              Still Makes Headline News in 2001 
             
              
              
              
             
             
            Lead Gives Packer's Story More Weight - 
              Alferd Packer Was Man Eater, Not Murderer  
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          - Colorado History In Depth 
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            Lecture Notes, Reading, and Information: 
          | The Cheyenne Migration 
            to Colorado |  
            | The Gratlan Affair, Massacre, Fort Laramie 
            Treaty | 
          The Cheyenne Social Club 
             
            | A Cheyenne War Story: Wolf Road, the Runner 
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            | Cheyenne Traditions and Beliefs, Sacred 
            Stories | 
            | Horses, Warriors, War Pipe, Sweatlodge 
            Ceremony | 
            | Cheyenne War Parties and Battle Tactics 
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            | The Scalp Dance and Other Cheyenne Dances 
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          Fort Union 
            | The Sante Fe Trail and Fort Union | 
             
            | Sumner - Ninth Military Department / The 
            First Fort Union |  
            | Early Arrivals to Fort Union, Daily Life 
            at Fort Union |  
            | Captain Grover - The New Fort Union, the 
            Confederate Threat | 
            | Fort Union Arsenal, William Shoemaker, 
            End of Fort Union |  
           Americans from the East  
            | Thomas Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase 
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            | The Expedition of Zebulon Pike | 
            | Pikes Peak or Bust / Colorado Gold Rush 
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           Colorado's Role in the US Civil 
            War  
            | The Civil War, Fort Wise / Fort Lyon 
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            | Mace's Hole, Colonel Canby, F.C.V.R. 
            | Fort Weld | 
            | The Pet Lambs, John Chivington | 
            | General Henry Sibly, Battle of Valverde, 
            Fort Union |  
           Cripple Creek District Labor Strikes 
            | The Western Federation of Miners / State 
            Militia | 
            | The 1893 - 1894 Strike | The 
            Strike of 1903 - 1904 | 
            | The Mine Owners Association | 
            | Crimes and Military Rule in the Cripple 
            Creek District | 
            | Marshall Law in Cripple Creek District 
            / End of the Strike | 
            Early Cripple Creek District  
            | Photos, Fire, and Life in Cripple Creek 
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            | Other Colorful Towns in the Cripple Creek 
            District: 
            Gillett - Colorado's Only Bullfight, Victor, Independence |  
            | A Guide to the Miners' Gritty Lingo 
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          More Colorado History 
            Information 
            | Bent's Fort Photos, Personalities, Plans, 
            and More | 
            | What Was Easter Like at Bent's Fort? 
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            | Colorado Trivia, 
            Miscellaneous Old Photos,  
            Western Personalities, Forts, and More | 
            | Lullabies for Jittery Cows - Cowboy Ballads 
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            | Heraldry of the Branding Iron | 
            | Project 
            Aims to Clear Infamous Cannibal, Alferd Packer | 
            | Lead Gives Alferd 
            Packer's Story More Weight | 
            | Legendary 
            Colorado Love Stories: Baby Doe Tabor & More 
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            | Colorado Pioneer Women: Elizabeth Byers 
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            | Early Denver Jokes / The History of April 
            Fools' Day | 
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