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 advent

George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began excha

Bent's Fort shall be destroyed! This I have seen! The Cheyenne elder Gray Owl predicts the end of the mighty trading post on the Arkansas River.

First hand narrative of overland travel along the Sante Fe Trail to Bent's Fort, Colorado and then on to Taos, New Mexico. This book is supposedly the only eye

An extraordinary man of the American West-a man who lived, fought, and made his mark in both the Indian and white worlds