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Colorado - Kansas

Monday we headed to Camp Amache, another Japanese-American internment camp.  It was once again, quiet and peaceful at that location, unlike how it must have been during WWII.  We then drove to Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.  This site is closely related to Bent's Old Fort (which we visited last week) in that 600+ soldiers from that fort rode over and attacked and killed over 200+ Cheyenne and Arapaho that were wintering in peace in the valley there. It was another peaceful and beautiful location. See the trees? That is where the tribes were camped. At first, they thought the troops arriving were bison coming their direction.  Mostly women and children were killed. There were plenty of warnings on the trail from the visitor center to the memorial warning about rattlesnakes.  I managed to scare a garter snake off the trail and it scared me too because I didn't see it until it moved! Luckily, it was NOT a rattlesnake. We drove into Kansas after t