title: Blood at Sand Creek: The Massacre Revisited
author: Bob Scott
description: <div>"By reinterpreting the Sand Creek massacre of 1864, Bob Scott has taken on the role of a pioneer, facing the arrows of western history revisionists. Blood at Sand Creek restores much-needed context to the history of the Sand Creek massacre."&#8212;Mike Antonucci, <i>True West</i></div> (<i>True West</i>)
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  The Iron Spiders
  
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  Prologue
  
  Blood begets blood. Murder is the child of murder. The seeds of slaughter,
  once planted, may grow and flourish for a century of time, and man may be
  helpless against them until their course is run.
  
  On the twenty-eighth day of December, in the year 1835, two weary companies of
  United States Infantry, under the command of Major Francis L. Dade, were on a
  forced march. Fort King was being sorely besieged by the crafty Seminole
  Chief, Osceola. The troops from Fort Brooke, on Tampa Bay, were hurrying to
  its relief.
  
  Near the Withlacoochee River, they entered the dark environs of Wahoo Swamp.
  The light of day darkened, cloaked by shadow of giant trees. Tangling vines
  plucked at their ti