George Bent : [collection] : [1910?] ; manuscript.

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George Bent : [collection] : [1910?] ; manuscript.

Collection consists of a single, undated handwritten manuscript of George Bent in which he gives a short history of the forts that his family built in Colorado.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7172533

History Colorado

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Bent, William, 1809-1869

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Bent, George, 1843-1918

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George Bent (1843-1918), son of Colonel William Bent, fur trader and founder of Bent's Fort, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, daughter of White Thunder, went to school in St. Louis. By 1904 he was living in Colony, Oklahoma. From the description of George Bent papers, 1904-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127533 George Bent, born in Bent's Fort in 1843, the son of William Bent and his Cheyenne wife. As a witness of the Indian wars and conflicts in Colorado during the late 1...