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    Bent's New Fort was a historic fort and trading post along the banks of the Arkansas River in what is now Bent County, Colorado, about nine miles west...
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    Bent's Old Fort is a fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, United States. A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran...
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    began burials in 1907, remains open. In July 1860, the Army rented Bent's New Fort and used it for storage of annuity goods for the Cheyenne and Arapaho...
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    his brothers, Bent established a trade business along the Santa Fe Trail. In the early 1830s Bent built an adobe fort, called Bent's Fort, along the Arkansas...
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  • Cheyenne and four of the Arapaho signed the Treaty of Fort Wise with the United States, at Bent's New Fort at Big Timbers near what is now Lamar, Colorado,...
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    George died at Bent's Fort (1846 and 1841, respectively). Charles Bent owned Charlotte and Dick Green, who worked at Bent's Fort. William Bent freed the couple...
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    favorite camping ground for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, William Bent located Bent's New Fort near Big Timbers and present-day Lamar to trade with the Native...
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    of what is now New Mexico. Between 1830 and 1834, William Bent operated Fort William near what is now Pueblo. It was also called Bent's Picket Post. Geography...
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    Reconstruction of Bent's Old Fort. Reconstruction of Fort Vasquez. Marker at site of Fort Saint Vrain. Sketch of Fort Lupton. Sketch of Bent's New Fort. A map of...
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    Commissioner of Indian Affairs, arrived at Bent's New Fort, along the Arkansas River, to negotiate a new treaty. On February 18, 1861, six chiefs of...
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    to Bent's fort. Charlotte, who Simmons claims was also Charles and William's slave, left the fort with her husband. A view inside Bent's Old Fort A view...
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    Santa Fe Trail (category Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico)
    National Historic Landmark. In Colorado, Santa Fe Trail Mountain Route – Bent's New Fort is included on the National Register. Missouri Arrow Rock (Arrow Rock...
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    Cheyenne and four of the Arapaho signed the Treaty of Fort Wise with the United States at Bent's New Fort at Big Timbers near what is now Lamar, Colorado....
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    The Fort is a historic restaurant in Morrison, Colorado. Construction of the structure started in 1961 and was inspired by Bent's Fort. The adobe structure...
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    It resembled the adobe building and plaza reconstructed at Fort Vasquez and Bent's Old Fort. Marcellin St. Vrain, Ceran's brother, managed the trading...
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    worked at Bent's Fort. It is likely that besides Beckwourth and the Greens, other African Americans worked at the fort as well. Bent's Fort, a trading...
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    Cheyenne and four of the Arapaho signed the Treaty of Fort Wise with the United States at Bent's New Fort at Big Timbers near what is now Lamar, Colorado....
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    Ceran St. Vrain (category History of Mora County, New Mexico)
    mules. The Bent-St. Vrain Company built Bent's Fort, an elaborate adobe fort on the eastern Colorado plains, along the Santa Fe Trail. Bent's Fort was the...
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  • Alexander Barclay (frontiersman) (category People from New Mexico Territory)
    After working in St. Louis as a bookkeeper and clerk, he worked at Bent's Old Fort. He then ventured westward where he was a trapper, hunter, and trader...
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    John Wesley Prowers (category People from Bent County, Colorado)
    miles west of Fort Lyon and helped negotiate the Treaty of Fort Wise (later renamed Fort Lyon) in 1861. William Bent's Bent's Old Fort, established in...
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  • William), New York City Fort William (Colorado), a frontier trading post also known as Bent's Old Fort Fort William (Kentucky), frontier fort 1785 Fort William...
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    Arkansas and South Platte valleys including Bent's Fort and El Pueblo. Southern Colorado, previously part of New Spain, was ceded in 1848 to the United States...
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  • 136. Robertson 1999, p. 39. Comer, Douglas C. (1996). Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, World Formation, and the Annexation of the Southwest. Berkeley: University...
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  • Thomas Oliver Boggs (category People from Bent County, Colorado)
    G. Boone at Fort Osage in Missouri and later in Fort Scott, Kansas. He headed further west when he was 16 or 17, ending up at Bent's Fort in Colorado...
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    Fort Collins as the new seat of Larimer County, Colorado Territory, and since statehood on August 1, 1876, the seat of Larimer County, Colorado. Fort...
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    Las Animas, Colorado (category Cities in Bent County, Colorado)
    "Purgatory River"), in southeast Colorado east of Pueblo, near the historic Bent's Fort. According to legend, the town and the Purgatoire River were named after...
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    entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places...
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  • Thomas Tate Tobin (category People from New Mexico Territory)
    Autobees and Tobin made regular stops in places such as Fort Jackson, Fort Lupton, Bent's Fort, and El Pueblo. By 1846, Tom had married Pascuala Bernal...
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    popular stopping-point for migrants on the Oregon Trail. Along with Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River, the trading post and its supporting industries...
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  • in business with Charles and built Bent's Old Fort and other outposts of trade in the American Southwest. Silas Bent was born in Rutland, Massachusetts...
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