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Category : Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: David Sievert Lavender
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803257535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Bent's Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Established by the adventurers Charles and William Bent, it stood until 1849 as the center of the Indian trade of the central plains. David Lavender's chronicle of these men and their part in the opening of the West has been conceded a place beside the works of Parkman and Prescott.

Author: Jackson W. Moore
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Category : Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Colo.)
Languages : en
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Category : Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 3

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Category : Bent's Fort (Colo.)
Languages : en
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Author: Douglas C. Comer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520207742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to do with ritual, Douglas Comer argues that the fort grew and prospered because of ritual and that ritual shaped the subsequent history of the region to an astonishing extent.

Author: George E. Hyde
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806174773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains. This correspondence, which continued to the eve of Bent's death in 1918, is the source of the narrative here published, the narrator being Bent himself. Almost ninety years have elapsed since the day in 1930 when Mr. Hyde found it impossible to market the finished manuscript of the Bent life down to 1866. (The Depression had set in some months before.) He accordingly sold that portion of the manuscript to the Denver Public Library, retaining his working copy, which carries down to 1875. The account therefore embraces the most stirring period, not only of Bent's own life, but of life on the Plains and into the Rockies. It has never before been published. It is not often that an eyewitness of great events in the West tells his own story. But Bent's narrative, aside from the extent of its chronology (1826 to 1875), has very special significance as an inside view of Cheyenne life and action after the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, which cost so many of the lives of Bent's friends and relatives. It is hardly probable that we shall achieve a more authentic view of what happened, as the Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Sioux saw it.

Author: Mark L. Gardner
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
ISBN: 9781877856860
Category : Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Not really a fort, but a private trading post on the early frontier, Bent's Old Fort traded with the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and other southern plains tribes. During the 1830s, this southeastern Colorado post bustled with mountain men, buffalo hunters, and Plains Indians eager to trade for supplies and other goods. Bent's Old Fort, and the people who established and ran it, set the stage for the economic development of the West.

Author: David F. Halaas
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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An extraordinary man of the American West-a man who lived, fought, and made his mark in both the Indian and white worlds