Journalist Margaret Coel’s journey to become The New York Times best-selling author of a fiction series about mysteries and murders on the Wind River Reservation began with a question: Who was this “Left Hand” that had his name everywhere in Boulder, Colorado?
“We have Left Hand Creek, Left Hand Canyon and Indian Mountain,” said Coel. “The town of Niwot is named for him. Niwot is the Arapaho word for ‘left hand’.”
Coel discovered that Left Hand was a Southern Arapaho who would bring his people to Boulder to their winter camping area each year…