WEST LEDGER
Testimony & Witness
Witness Account — 1864
A Letter After Sand Creek
Captain Silas Soule
He ordered his men not to fire. He watched anyway. He wrote it down. He was murdered four months after his testimony was submitted.
Frontier Statement — 1874
Statement of Survival in the San Juan Country
Alferd Packer
He came out of the San Juans alone. The mountains kept what they took. He carried the silence of five others with him.
Private Correspondence — 1885
Letter Written After Beaver Creek
Anonymous Militiaman
He wrote to his brother the week after the engagement. He did not describe what he had done. He described what he had seen done. The letter was never sent.
GRAND REGISTER
Eyewitness & Survivor
Eyewitness Testimony — 1904
Statement of a Telegraph Boy
Anonymous, submitted 1931
He was the first person on-site with a working wire. He sent twelve messages before dawn. He counted the survivors. The number did not match the manifest.
Survivor Testimony — 1914
Account from the Tent Colony
Anonymous, collected 1944
She was inside a tent when the shooting started. She was inside the death pit when it ended. She survived. She was eleven years old.
EAST EXCHANGE
Private Correspondence
Private Letter — 1893
Letter from an Arkansas Valley Field Hand
Anonymous, submitted c. 1913
He found a pattern in the wheat north of Pueblo that he could not name. He kept the letter for twenty years. When he finally sent it, he described walking the shape: arc — spur east — return.
Object Memoir — 1894
Letter from a Rider
Anonymous, submitted 1921
He bought a saddle from a man who seemed relieved to be rid of it. The stirrups were already set to his length. The seat already knew how he sat. The marks on the left fender were not decorative.
