Death With Company

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Death With Company

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Jon Burch Photography

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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Death Without Company is the title of a novel written by Craig Johnson. In the book, Sheriff Longmire must connect events of the past to the present to find a killer. One of the characters in the book is in a nursing home and dies without any friends around.

No so with the participants who died in these old rocks. They had a lot of friends who died with them. The rock pile located on the east side of I-25 in northern Weld County, in northern Colorado just south of the Wyoming state line is the site of a bloody Indian battle.

There used to be an historical marker at the site that said: "One day, a group of around 600 Crow hunters led by Jim Beckwourth, their mulatto chief, surprised a group of around 160 Blackfoot hunters and chased them into these rocks. A bloody battle ensued in which the Crows killed the Blackfeet one by one. Old Jim modestly admitted he killed nor more than 11 Blackfeet, an understatement for him."

The sign is no longer there, but the interesting rocks are if you know their bloody history. Now the rocks are covered with graffiti. A different slant on "Colorful Colorado"...
Image Copyright 2020 Jon Burch Photography.

Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark.

Image copyright 2020 Jon Burch Photography

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August 14th, 2020

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