Lucile Bogue
1 book in the catalogue.
Lucile Bogue is the author of Blood on the Wind, a book about a woman named Mollie and the push to remove Colorado's Ute people from their land. It is the one book of hers in our catalogue.
About Lucile Bogue
We know Lucile Bogue through this book. We could not read a biography of her at any source, so we give no dates or other details. We also hold no verified publication date for Blood on the Wind, so we leave that question open.
What the books share
Bogue's book is about change arriving in a settled life. The description follows Mollie's life and its sense of community, and then the political campaign led by Governor Frederick Pitkin and Denver Post editor William B. Vickers under the slogan "The Utes Must Go!" The setting is Colorado at the end of the 1870s, when miners and settlers wanted the Ute reservation land.
Next steps for readers of this author
Learning from the tribes' own sites
Most of what is written about the Utes in this period was written by outsiders. A reader who wants a present day view can start with the Southern Ute tribal website and its history and culture sections, then compare that voice with the encyclopedia articles.
Following the agency trail
Anyone curious about how reservation government worked in the 1870s can read the Los Piños Agency article, which covers the second agency site, the 1881 abandonment and the later excavation. It gives names and dates to check against any other account.
Go deeper
Lucile Bogue's one book here, Blood on the Wind, deals with the removal of Colorado's Utes. These pages give a reader background on the tribes today and on the agency that governed Uncompahgre Ute life in the 1870s.
Ute History and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
A Colorado Encyclopedia article describing the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, one of three federally recognized tribes of the Nuche people, and the long contraction of Ute territory.
Los Piños Indian Agency
An article on the agency that became the center of government authority for the Uncompahgre Utes after 1868, and on its abandonment in 1881 and the archaeology done at its second site.
Colorado Encyclopedia: Los Piños Agency → (opens in a new tab)
Southern Ute Indian Tribe
The tribe's own website, which describes the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest Colorado and has sections on culture, history and visiting.
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