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May 23, 2013 - Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

9:00 on the road again. We had planned on staying at the local KOA tonight but they were full, so plan B. We head out to Bent’s Old Fort. Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site features a reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post. For much of its 16-year history, the fort was the only major permanent white settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements. The fort provided explorers, adventurers, and the U.S. Army a place to get needed supplies, wagon repairs, livestock, good food, water and company, rest and...

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Jun 21, 2011 - Bent's Old Fort

It took us all day to travel the 250 miles to our next destination, Bent's Old Fort Colorado, thanks to a head wind. It isn't much fun driving a portable cabin into 30 mile per hour head winds. Bent's Old Fort was built in 1833 as a trading post along the Santa Fe Trail. The Rocky Mountain beaver fur trade was ending but the bison fur trade was just beginning. The fort was ideally located on the southern plains hunting grounds of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowas. It was a very prosperous enterprise with a metropolitan mix of Indians,...

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May 15, 2009 - Bent's Old Fort

We're in La Junta, CO - a cute little town and nearby is Bent's Old Fort. We toured the fort this morning. Although called Bent's Old Fort, it was really a commercial trading post, one of the largest in its day. Two traders who were brothers, William and Charles Bent, along with another friend, Ceran St. Vrain, built the fort in 1833. It was the only major permanent white settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements. It was built in present day Colorado, just north of the Arkansas River, the border between...

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