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Semi Weekly Herald
Durango, La Plata County, Colorado
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Captain J.B. Sims, a pioneer, recalls the 43rd anniversary of a Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian battle near Colorado Springs where several settlers were killed. Three days prior, Sims fought off 60 Indians using his weapons, earning their fear. His wife arrived by ox wagon in 1868.
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Captain J. B. Sims, who rode as one of the pioneer range riders of the Pikes Peak region in the parade yesterday, was especially interested in the occasion as the day was the forty-third anniversary of a battle with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians near the spot where the Antlers hotel now stands. In this fight Frank and George Robbins and Charles Averhardt were killed and John Baldwin was scalped and left for dead on the field. Three days previous to this battle, Captain Sims was surrounded by a band of sixty Indians on the headwaters of the Cottonwood, north of Colorado Springs, but being the possessor of a pair of Colt's revolvers and a repeating rifle, he was able to strike terror to the band and rode away leaving a number of the braves on the field. After that the Indians feared him more than any of their white foes, as they had an idea that he was aided by spirits in the rapid loading of his rifle. Mrs. Sims is also one of the early pioneers, having come to Colorado City in an ox wagon from Minnesota in 1868.—Colorado Springs Herald-Telegraph, Aug. 2.
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Near Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Region
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Forty Third Anniversary On The Day Before Aug. 2
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On the 43rd anniversary of a deadly battle with Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians near the Antlers hotel site, where settlers were killed and scalped, Captain Sims recounts escaping 60 Indians three days earlier using revolvers and a repeating rifle, instilling fear in them as if aided by spirits.