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Trio of historic sites in southeastern Colorado spotlight hard truths, offer “a chance to tell that fuller story”

Federal recognition is helping expand tourism opportunities at Camp Amache, sites of Sand Creek and Ludlow massacres

A replica of the old guard tower, at right, stands on display at the Amache National Historic Site in Granada on Nov. 14, 2022. By presidential Executive Order 9066, more than 7,000 people of Japanese descent, most being American citizens, were forcibly imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center from 1942 to 1945. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
A replica of the old guard tower, at right, stands on display at the Amache National Historic Site in Granada on Nov. 14, 2022. By presidential Executive Order 9066, more than 7,000 people of Japanese descent, most being American citizens, were forcibly imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center from 1942 to 1945. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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Three historical sites clustered on the bone-dry plains of southeastern Colorado have drawn new attention to hard truths around century-old massacres and a wartime prison, an opportunity local leaders are seizing to expand tourism that explores the lessons of the past.
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