"Jack" Slade, a superintendent for the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, was tracking down horse thieves, including Jules Beni.

Beni continued to steal horses from the Pike's Peak Express Company, and Slade vowed to hunt him down.

[citation needed] This account is among the Stories of the Century, a syndicated television series starring and narrated by Jim Davis, which aired on March 4, 1955.

In revenge for the Sand Creek Massacre, one thousand Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota warriors attacked Julesburg on January 7, 1865.

On February 2 they returned to Julesburg and burned down all the buildings in the settlement, although not attacking the soldiers and civilians holed up in the fort.

Julesburg experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with cold, dry winters and hot, wetter summers.