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 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 The Colorado Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wah to Yah and the Taos Trail written by Lewis H. Garrard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1972-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First hand narrative of overland travel along the Sante Fe Trail to Bent's Fort, Colorado and then on to Taos, New Mexico. This book is supposedly the only eye witness account of the trials and hangings of the revolutionaries who attempted to overthrow the newly acquired American occupancy in Taos by murdering Govenor Charles Bent and several others.
Download or read book Little Fox s Secret written by Mary Peace Finley and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bent's Fort shall be destroyed! This I have seen! The Cheyenne elder Gray Owl predicts the end of the mighty trading post on the Arkansas River.
Download or read book Empires Nations and Families written by Anne Farrar Hyde and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. ø Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde?s narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture?not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.
Download or read book One Man s West written by David Sievert Lavender and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The country in which I grew up-the rugged areas of southwestern Colorado-was changing rapidly in the 1930s. I sensed that something unique in the nation's experience was ending, and I tried to capture a segment of the passing on paper-the breakup of the great cattle ranches and mines and the last efforts of the old-timers to hang on in the face of declining profits and increasing mechanization they themselves could not afford."-David Lavender
Download or read book The Bent Family in America written by Allen Herbert Bent and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood in the Borderlands written by David C. Beyreis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful Indian tribes, governed territories, became Indian agents, fought against the U.S. government, acquired land grants, and created historical narratives. The Bent family's financial and political success through the mid-nineteenth century derived from the marriages of Bent men to women of influential borderland families--New Mexican and Southern Cheyenne. When mineral discoveries, the Civil War, and railroad construction led to territorial expansions that threatened to overwhelm the West's oldest inhabitants and their relatives, the Bents took up education, diplomacy, violence, entrepreneurialism, and the writing of history to maintain their status and influence. In Blood in the Borderlands David C. Beyreis provides an in-depth portrait of how the Bent family creatively adapted in the face of difficult circumstances. He incorporates new material about the women in the family and the "forgotten" Bents and shows how indigenous power shaped the family's business and political strategies as the family adjusted to American expansion and settler colonist ideologies. The Bent family history is a remarkable story of intercultural cooperation, horrific violence, and pragmatic adaptability in the face of expanding American power.
Download or read book The Great Persuader written by David Lavender and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints the 1970 biography (originally published by Doubleday) of a railroad mogul whose family supplied the author with material never before made public. The book explains how Huntington operated, how he accumulated his great fortune, and how his dealings with Standford, Hopkins, Scott, Durrant, Ames and Gould resulted in the creation of a national railroad. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Buildings of Colorado written by Thomas Jacob Noel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first detailed survey of the notable prehistoric, historic, and contemporary structures in each of Colorado's 63 counties." -- from "101 Best Books on Colorado" bibliography.
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 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 Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail written by Sam Arnold and published by Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains recipes and food stories from trappers, traders, settlers, various Indian tribes, Mexicans, and military soldiers who traveled the Santa Fe Trail, with instructions on how to prepare such dishes as buffalo, elk, crane, Indian "washtunkala" (jerked meat stew), and "belly washes," such as Injun Whiskey (made with black gunpowder, red pepper, and tobacco juice).
Download or read book The Santa Fe Trail written by David Lavender and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intense heat, killing blizzards, and the constant threat of attacking Indians made traveling the Santa Fe Trail - the 775-mile-long wagon road between frontier Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico - very risky.
Download or read book Colorado History Detectives written by Todd Laugen and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bent s Old Fort National Historic Site written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site in La Junta, Colorado, presented by the National Park Service (NPS). Notes that it is an authentically reconstructed trading post based on drawings, written journals and archaeological excavations of the original post, which was constructed in the early 1830s.
