Spanish Peaks Library District

Colorado Collection

After Cheyenne leader Gray Owl has a vision of eleven-year-old Little Fox involved in the destruction of Bent's Fort trading post in 1849, the boy is taken there to play his role and to learn why it is necessary.

Drawing on journals of the 1840's, the authors describe the life of an important trading center on the Santa Fe Trail, where U.S., Mexican, and Indian cultures mingled at a key time in American history.

"Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to the death of William Bent in 1869, exploring how one family lived and negotiated within shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests"--