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| Title | Bent's Old Fort and Its Builders |
| Abstract | Photos and article about Bent's Fort in southeastern Colorado as a stop near the Santa Fe Trail and its builders (mainly members of the Bent family of Missouri) and other traders there such as mountain man Kit Carson. Many details about the history of the fort as an early trading post (established in 1826, built in 1828-1832, and blown up by Bent in 1852 before the construction of a second fort in 1853 nearby) by fur trading partners William Bent (pictured) of Westport, his brothers Charles Bent, George Bent, and Robert Bent (all sons of Silas Bent of Saint Louis), and Ceran Saint Vrain, or Ceran St. Vrain (pictured). Also on pages 54-55 a description of "a saloon and dance hall called the Last Chance" about 2 miles south of Westport for Santa Fe Trail freighters in the mid-1800s. |
| Notes | Page 46: "William Bent was undoubtedly the first permanent white settler in what is now Colorado, and for a very long time he was not only its first settler, but remained its most important white citizen. He had a fine farm at Westport (now part of Kansas City, Mo.), purchased after the Mexican War, but his permanent home was in Colorado." |
| Author | George Bird Grinnell
William E. Connelley
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| Date | 1922 |
| Source | Kansas State Historical Society Collections |
| Location | Periodical |
| Volume | 15 |
| Page | 28-88 |
| Local Subject | Bent, William W.
Explorers
Saloons
Forts
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 123023 |
| CONTENTdm number | 18826 |
