Title: Bent's Fort /
Authors: Lavender, David, 1910-2003
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1954
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Colorado; Bent's Fort (Colo.)
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Introduction : The place called Purgatory -- The town on the river -- Those bloody waters -- The trapper from Taos -- Mountain 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 -- Destruction -- Turn back the clock -- The white tide -- The last agonies.