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3) Bent's Fort
Series
Colorado experience volume 112
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"During the height of the Fur Trade, Bent's Fort established itself as one of the most important trading posts in the West -- an area which remained largely unexplored by the then-young-and-growing United States. Located along the Arkansas River, Bent's Fort lay only a few yards from what was then Mexico. As the only major permanent settlement along the Santa Fe Trail, it served as a hub of commercial and cultural exchange for Cheyenne and Arapahoe...
Author
Pub. Date
1957
Description
Boggsville was one of the first permanent settlements in Colorados Arkansas Valley. Established as a ranch sometime around 1862 by Thomas O. Boggs and his wife, Rumalda Luna Boggs, the site was part of the Vigil & St. Vrain/Las Animas Mexican land grant. Boggs acquired the land, over 2,000 acres, through his wife, who was the stepdaughter of Charles Bent, proprietor of Bents Fort and the first Governor of New Mexico after the Mexican American War....
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