John Chivington, a Colonel at the time of the U.S. Civil War who gained infamy for his attack on a peaceful settlement of Native Americans on the plains of Colorado, an attack which came to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre
Chivington was named for the Reverend/Colonel John Chivington, who was celebrated as the hero of the 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass and commanded the Volunteer Militia of the Colorado Territory that perpetrated the Sand Creek massacre, a slaughter of Native Americans in a nearby gulch during the American Civil War.
It was believed that few other individuals knew that part of the Rocky Mountain West to the extent that Dyer did although John Chivington, known for the Sand Creek Massacre, was also a Methodist circuit rider and later a presiding elder, but he had entered the military by the time Dyer arrived in Colorado.
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Through Past life regression it is shown that he was many people from Earth's history, including Colonel John Chivington, Adolf Hitler and the original Torquemada himself.
Chivington Drive, a street in Longmont, Colorado, which was named for Colonel John Chivington, and therefore became the center of controversy in the news and at Longmont City Council meetings
Chivington, Colorado, a ghost town in Kiowa County, named for Colonel John Chivington