Bent's Fort

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press - A Bison Book, 1972. Sixth Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/4" X 8 1/4. Brodie, Jack - Cover. 470 Pages Indexed. A gently used book. 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. This is about lthe old Santa Fe trail, the trappers and the traders and the mountain men who preceded them. Contents in 20 Chapters: The Town on the River, Those Bloody Waters, The Trapper From Taos, Mountainn Winter, Death on the Trail, The People of the Plains,The Night the Stars Fell, Robes Alcohol and Dragoons, Adobe Empire, Texians, Kit Carson's Brother-in-Law, Land Beyond Imagining, Rumbles of Trouble, War, Revolution, Retribution, Destructiion, Turn Back the Clock, The White Tide, and The Last Agonies. Plus Notes and Bibliography.