Bents Fort National Historic Site
Following the Spanish and French explorations of the 1790s into what is now Colorado, various trading forts sprung up across Colorado's Eastern Plains. The most famous was Bent's Fort. The original site of Bent's fort have been excavated and documented, one which is now reconstructed and attracts tourists, school field trips, and any history enthusiast. Bent's Fort was the largest structure of its time between Missouri and the Pacific Ocean.
William Bent, a fur trapper by trade, came west with his brother Charles Bent, in the 1820s. At the age of twenty, William opened the territory's first stockade along the Arkansas River, near the mouth of Huerfano Creek. The Bent brothers expanded their trad
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