Download or read book Bent s Fort written by David Sievert Lavender and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bent s Old Fort written by Jackson W. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bent s Fort written by Melvin Bacon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on journals of the 1840s, the authors describe the life of an important trading center on the Santa Fe Trail, where U.S., Mexican, and Indian cultures mingled at a key time in American history.
Download or read book Bent s Old Fort National Historic Site Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of George Bent written by George E. Hyde and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bent s Fort written by David Lavender and published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the building of Bent's Fort, a trading post along the Santa Fe trail, and describes work there, the wagon trains, Indians who traded there, and life at the fort in summer and winter.
Download or read book Bent s Fort written by Melvin Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal accounts highlighting the life of an important trading center on the Santa Fe Trail.
Download or read book Ritual Ground written by Douglas C. Comer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-12-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, 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. At Bent's Old Fort, rituals of trade, feasting, gaming, marriage, secret societies, and war, as well as the "calcified ritual" provided by the fort itself, brought together and restructured Anglo, Hispanic, and American Indian cultures. Comer sheds new light on this heretofore poorly understood period in American history, building at the same time a powerfully convincing case to demonstrate that the human world is made through ritual. Comer gives his narrative an anthropological and philosophical framework; the events at Bent's Old Fort provide a compelling example not only of "world formation" but of a world's tragic collapse, culminating in the Sand Creek massacre. He also calls attention to the reconstructed Bent's Old Fort on the site of the original. Here visitors reenact history, staff work out personal identities, and groups lobby for special versions of history by ritual recasting of the past as the present.
Download or read book Ritual Ground written by Douglas C. Comer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-12-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bent s Old Fort National Historic Site written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bent s Fort written by David Sievert Lavender and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bent s Fort Crossroads of the Great West written by Wyatt Blassingame and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the building of Bent's Fort, a trading post along the Santa Fe trail, and describes work there, the wagon trains, Indians who traded there, and life at the fort in summer and winter.
Download or read book Halfbreed written by David F. Halaas and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-01-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary man of the American West-a man who lived, fought, and made his mark in both the Indian and white worlds
Download or read book Southern Arabia written by James Theodore Bent and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wah to Yah and the Taos Trail written by Lewis Garrard and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Hector Garrard's (1829 - 1887) classic account of his travels through the southwestern United States in 1846-1847 contains the following chapters: I. The Start II. The Trail III. The Village IV. Peculiarities V. The Fort VI. The Dance VII. Strangers and Drawbacks VIII. The Snow Tramp IX. Prospective Trouble X. El Rio De Las Animas XI. El Rio Vermejo XII. El Rancho XIII. El Valle De Taos XIV. El Conselo XV. San Fernandez XVI. Los Pueblos XVII. El Muerte XVIII. Adios! XIX. Wah-To-Yah XX. The Farm XXI. The Arkansas XXII. Service XXIII. A Welcome Arrival XXIV. The Brush XXV. Farewell!
Download or read book Bent s Old Fort written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
