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Bent's Fort Bents

GnoseBob  (View posts) Posted: 28 Mar 2001 6:17PM GMT
Edited: 1 Nov 2002 1:09AM GMT
I have several books on the Bent's Fort Bents. I believe the famous George was son of William who along with another of the four brothers married Southern Cheyenne wives. The 1900 Bent genealogy details the family. Of course all of the Southern Cheyenne Bents were victims of the Sand Creek massacre and distanced themselves from their white side thereafter, for which no one could blame them. I've heard that some are in Oklahoma and a couple years ago there was a girl who graduated here in Lander Valley HS, perhaps related to someone on our Wind River Res. There is a picture of George Bent, perhaps several that I've seen. The old book MASSACRES OF THE MOUNTAINS, by J.P.Dunn,Jr. has one. Several pictures in LIFE OF GEORGE BENT (a compilation of his letters) by Geo.E.Hyde. No pictures in David Lavender's BENT'S FORT. No pictures of George in TRAGEDY AT TAOS by James A. Crutchfield. Nothing of George's pictures in RITUAL GROUND by Douglas C. Comer. MONTH OF THE FREEZING MOON by Duane Schultz has a lot on George but no pictures. You know at the height of the fur trade the Bents had not only Bent's Fort and Ft. St. Vrain,near present-day Denver, but Fort Laramie up here in Wyoming. My father once owned 12 sections 75 miles due north of the Fort, which wasn't there then, not having been rebuilt by USGov until the '60s I think.
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