12-1-25

 OK, we are driving home from Colorado. Today we stopped to see two National Park Monuments.

The first is an old fort on the wild frontier where people would stop to buy necessities or get their wagons fixed. This is Bent's Old Fort.

It's a reconstruction but very realistic. 

The next site was a Japanese internment camp called Amache Japanese Internment Camp.

It's all mostly gone, but there are a few things left to see. What struck me was how desolate it was out there in the middle of nowhere, and how horrible it must have been for people in California to have been shipped by train to this remote site.

Note the moon in the tree branches. We read that the Japanese could purchase a tree to plant and you can see them dotted across the barren landscape.

 Finally, we tried to go here but it was closed.  It was the site of a horrible massacre of native peoples by the US troops. The Sand Creek Massacre. It was cold so we stayed in a hotel this evening in Springfield, Colorado, after having dinner at the Cow Palace in Lamar, Co.