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Bent's Fort (Paperback)
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To highlight his report on the life of the traders and trappers of
the Southwest in the mid 19th century, the author has focussed on
the story of successful trader William Bent, who married a Cheyenne
Indian and whose sons, in the end, turned on the white race and
helped destroy the empire that he and his brothers had created.
This story has an ironic drama in itself which has not been
fictionalized here, and Lavender, who also wrote One Man's West and
The Big Divide, draws on the known history of this period for his
informed speculations about the life and adventures of real
characters. A sound historical account which records harsh and
heroic times with a fitting fortitude. (Kirkus Reviews)
"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.
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