Author : David Sievert Lavender
Release : 1954-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 535/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Bent's Fort by : David Sievert Lavender
Download or read book Bent's Fort written by David Sievert Lavender. This book was released on 1954-01-01. 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.