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Bent's Old Fort is a fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, United States.A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain built the fort in 1833 to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes.
Bent's Old Fort has been reconstructed by the National Park Service in the 1970s and is operated as an historic destination, with events to interpret its history. Scott Brady, known for his syndicated western television series Shotgun Slade portrayed William Bent in a 1957 episode, "The Lone Woman" of the CBS anthology series, Playhouse 90.
William Bent operated a trading post with limited success at the site and in 1860 leased the fort to the United States government, which operated it as a military outpost until 1867. In 1862, it was named Fort Lyon. The fort was abandoned after a flood of the Arkansas River in 1867.
Bent's Old Fort: Fort William [a] La Junta area Otero: 1834 1849 Trading post National Historic Site and museum [4] Fort Le Duc: Fort Maurice, Buzzard's Roost, El Cuervo
1845 Santa Fe Trail and native tribal lands. William Bent, a white trader from St Louis, came to the Arkansas River region towards the end of the 1820s. [8] [9] By around 1832, although possibly as late as 1834, [10] a permanent trading post called Bent's Fort, which was a substantial adobe construction capable of accommodating 200 people, [8] [11] had been built on the northern "Mountain ...
Dick was enslaved by Charles and his brother Andrew served William Bent. [7] Dick and Andrew handled maintenance and chores at the fort, and the Greens and Owl Woman, William Bent's wife, may have been managers of the fort. [2] The men may have been butlers at large affairs, [4] and Dick was likely a blacksmith. [5]
William Bent of St. Vrain & Company attacked Shoshone Indians trading at Gantt's Fort, killing a few and driving them away. Gantt abandoned his fort that winter. The Bents left their stockade and built Bent's Fort about 70 miles down the Arkansas. The adobe forts were built by Mexican laborers hired for construction and other work. Mexican ...
Fort Saint Vrain was an 1837 fur trading post built by the Bent, St. Vrain Company, and located at the confluence of Saint Vrain Creek and the South Platte River, about 20 miles (32 km) east of the Rocky Mountains in the unorganized territory of the United States, in present-day Weld County, Colorado.