Profile of the chief of the Utes who helped write treaties with the government.

A biography of the Ute Indians' great peacemaker whose tribe retained their land and freedom until his death in 1880.

An eminently readable history of the Ute Indians of Colorado from earliest times to the present.

A compelling and factual book on the life and times of the Ute Indian Chief Ouray's beloved wife and trusted confidant, Chipeta.

Biography of the wife of Chief Ouray of the Ute Indians in Colorado. She was born Kiowa Apache. Her parents were both killed in a raid shortly after her birth. The Tabegauche (Uncompahgre) Utes found and raised her as their own. They named her Chipeta, meaning White Singing Bird. She was appointed to care for Chief Ouray's son after the death of his first wife, and in 1859 they were married.

"It rarely happens, but occasionally a manuscript appears that literally changes our view of history, adds insights into important events, or perhaps even changes "history." Such a book is Joy of the Frontier and the history it affects includes early Christian bible camps, the Civil War's effect on women and children, life in early Ouray, details on the Uncompahgre Indian Agency, the relief effort to safely return the captured women of the Meeker...

"Unbroken Spirits are the stories of three courageous hardworking women who triumphed over their adversities, not by becoming rich, powerful, winners in society but by enduring patiently and nobly under terrible adverse conditions. These women were not queens or princesses. They were underdogs. Some might even call them "losers." Each of these very special women played an important role in a famous Colorado conflict. Chipeta, wife of famous Ute Chief...

Part I begins with the Prehistoric Peoples. Includes Folsom man, basketmakers, and the Pueblos/Cliffdwellers. Part II is on the Indians and includes first contact with the Whites, principal tribes of Colorado, food, shelther, and clothing of the Indians, equipment and utensils, weapons, hunting, and war, and dances, music, and art

In 1879 a small band of Ute Indians went wild in the Colorado Rockies and ambushed a force of soldiers, murdered their Indian agent and his employees, and took three women hostage. This was the Massacre at White River, and its consequences included the removal of the Ute tribe to barren lands, while the western slope of Colorado was opened to white settlement.