From OCramer@ColoradoCollege.edu Thu Nov 1 11:37:47 2001 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fA1Jben174344 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:37:40 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 01 11:37:39 2001 -0800 Received: from exchange2.ColoradoCollege.edu ([205.170.0.14]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fA1Jbc229861 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:37:39 -0800 Received: by exchange2.ColoradoCollege.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:37:38 -0700 Message-ID: <5E5B5397B92DA849874262D1AF191C2C02489C07@exchange2.ColoradoCollege.edu> From: Owen Cramer To: "'classics@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: casualty aversion Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:37:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yes, a number of Colorado worthies took part in that that lamentable action, which is now to be commemorated in a National Monument as proposed by our Northern Cheyenne Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell http://www.nps.gov/planning/sand/. Chivington, btw, was also the hero of Colorado volunteers' finest accomplishment, the Battle of Glorietta Pass in 1862, in which the Texans were prevented from taking over the Southwest. Convenient profile at http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chivington.htm. -----Original Message----- From: Pesely, George [mailto:PeselyG@apsu.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:42 AM To: 'classics@u.washington.edu' Subject: RE: casualty aversion Closer to our time and in Prof. Cramer's own state, Colonel John M. Chivington made a speech in Denver advocating killing and scalping all Indians, even infants, declaring "Nits make lice!" .