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Bent's Fort and the Santa Fe Trail Legend
A historical survey of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present Pueblo, its 1824 founding by William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain, adobe walls, guards, and the fort as a hub for Santa Fe trade. It details its role amid fur trappers, Indian negotiations, and eventual destruction in 1852 as beaver declined and trade faded.
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United States
Napoleon
Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
Pacific
Mississippi
Frontier
Rocky Mountain
Missouri
Great Plains
Far West
Grant
Plaine
Louisiana Purchase
Mississippi River
Great Southwest
Southwest
New Mexico
Great Plain
Missouri River
Rocky Mountains
Santa Fe
Taos
Arkansas
Raton Pass
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Chittenden
Mallet Brothers
Ince
la Lande
Kaskaskia
Ill
Commere
James Pureley
Zebulon Pike
Lick
Howard County
Old Franklin
Kit Carson
Bent
Arkansas River
la Junta
Colorado
Tapa
Desert
Union
Pierre
Laramie
Charles M. Russell
Montana
St. Louis
William Bent
American Fur Company
Independence
Los Animas
Indiana
Secon Stary
Walla
Ack
Bent Brothers
Thomas J. Farnham
New England
George Frederick Maxton
Old West
Arkansa
Post
Corral
Indian Square
Bent’s Fort
Eld
Ealr
Em Agricultural