Book - American Indians of the Pikes Peak Region
Explore historical images of 'American Indians of the Pikes Peak Region' . Thousands of years before Zebulon Pike's name became attached to this famous mountain, Pikes Peak was home to indigenous people.
By Celinda R. Kaelin and Pikes Peak Historical Society
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, and culturally scarred trees. In the 1500s, Spanish explorers 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.