Ladder Creek

[6] Its source lies just south of Firstview, Colorado in central Cheyenne County in the far eastern part of the state.[4][7] In 1664, a group of Taos people fleeing Spanish rule built a small pueblo on the west bank of Ladder Creek in what is today north-central Scott County, Kansas.University of Kansas archaeologists excavated the site in the 1890s, and it became known as El Cuartelejo, the northernmost pueblo ruins in the United States.[7] In September 1878, the U.S. Army fought the Northern Cheyenne in the Battle of Punished Woman's Fork on bluffs overlooking the creek a few miles south of El Cuartelejo.The women, children, and elderly took cover in Squaw’s Den Cave, as the warriors fought the U.S. soldiers, at which time Lewis was shot in his thigh.
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