Images of America: American Indians of the Pikes Peak Region

Pikes Peak, Colorado

      Thousands of years before Zebulon Pike's name became attached to this famous mountain, Pikes Peak was home to indigenous people. These First Nations left no written record of their sojourn here, but what they did leave were stone circles, carefully crafted arrowheads and stone tools, enigmatic petroglyphs documented their locations, language, and numbers. In the 1800s, mountain men and official explorers such as Pike, Fremont, and Long also wrote about these First Nations. Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Lakota made incursions into the region. These nations contested Ute land possession, harvested the abundant wildlife, and paid homage to the powerful spirits at Garden of the Gods and Manitou Springs. Today Ute Indians return to Garden of the Gods and to Pikes Peak each year to perform their sacred Sundance Ceremony. 

Product Details:

Copyright 2008 by Celinda R. Kaelin

Published by Arcadia Publishing 

Paperback, 127 pages

Includes bibliographic reference and index 

Dimension: 6.5" x 9.25"

About the Author:

Celinda R. Kaelin is president of the Pikes Peak Historical Society and has written and lectured on this subject for 13 years. Kaelin has culled the images in this volume from the archives at the Museum of New Mexico, the Colorado Historical Society, the Pikes Peak Library District, the Denver Public Library, and the Ute Pass Historical Society.