I live in western Colorado, so this was a choice I made to learn about a part of my states history. First hand accounts of the and of an era and the tragedy of a lost homeland.
Too bad it is not fiction, this is a sad account of the fate of the Ute Indians, written by a true American Hero, Dalton Carr, may you Rest in Peace my friend!.
Here is how the dispossession of the Utes really happened. Should be required reading in history classes.
Red Twilight: The Last Free Days Of The Ute Indians is a remarkable eye-witness testament to the plight of the Ute Indians. Val FitzPatrick was born January 4, 1886 and lived to the age of 102.
"Red Twilight: The Last Free Days Of The Ute Indians" is a remarkable eye-witness testament to the plight of the Ute Indians. Val FitzPatrick was born January 4, 1886 and lived to the age of 102.
This book is unique - it tells the story of the removal of the Ute Indians from a sympathetic viewpoint, and by one who was there. Val FitzPatrick was a settler in northwest Colorado when the Utes were displaced into Utah and forced from their ancestral homelands.
