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	AllRefer.com - Charles Bent (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Charles Bent was the senior partner of a trading firm that included Ceran St. Vrain as well as William Bent and others of the seven Bent brothers.
		The company was one of the most prominent on the frontier, and Bent's Fort was one of the most famous American trading posts.
		Because of his high standing, Charles Bent was chosen as governor of New Mexico after the American occupation in the Mexican War.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bent-Cha.html (228 words)

	William Bent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis, Missouri, William Bent was one of the famous Bent brothers who helped "open the west", His brother Charles Bent was also a trader as well as a short term governor of New Mexico.
		On the Santa Fe Trail and because of Bent's association with the Cheyenne, this fort became a major merchandise center on the southern plains.
		William Bent is buried in the Las Animas Cemetery south of Las Animas, Colorado.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Bent (204 words)

	THE UNSOLVED CASE OF CHARLES ROBIDOUX
		Charles Bent, governor under the American tribunal, was unalarmed of reports, and miscalculated the temper of the populace at Taos.
		Charles Robidoux, about eleven o'clock at night on Main Street, was standing in front of Summerville store room in company with his friends, Charles Summerville and one of the Edgar boys, son of the proprietor of the Edgar House.
		The closest Canadian Charles Robidoux was born in 1829, which would have made him twenty-one at the time of the Santa Fe census--this is a five year discrepancy between the age given in the 1850 census, and only a one or two year discrepancy with Robidoux's last son.
	www.lewismicropublishing.com /Publications/Robidoux/RobidouxCharles.htm (7031 words)

	Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado
		Ceran St. Vrain served as the American consul in Santa Fe in the 1830's and (with Charles Bent's great-uncle-in-law Cornelio Vigil) was the recipient of some 4 million acres spread across south-eastern Colorado as part owner of the Vigil-St. Vrain Land Grant.
		So effective were the Bents as peacemakers among the Indians, in 1846 the fort was used as headquarters for the Upper Platte and Arkansas Indian Agency.
		With their business at Bent's Fort in ruins, 1848 saw St. Vrain trying to sell the place to the US Army, but the Army had other ideas (they built the first fort at Fort Union in 1851 and built Fort Massachusetts in the San Luis Valley a couple years later).
	www.sangres.com /np/bents.htm (1898 words)

	Search Results for "Bent"
		Bent s Fort, trading post of the American West, on the Arkansas River in present-day SE Colorado, E of Rocky Ford and La Junta and several miles above the mouth of...
		One of the younger brothers of Charles Bent, he was for many years the manager of Bent's Fort, while...
		bent grass, any species of the genus Agrostis of the family Gramineae (grass family), chiefly slender, delicate plants native to cool climates.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Bent (220 words)

	William W. Bent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain organized a trading venture, William Bent set up a center on the upper Arkansas where the two Bents, with their brothers, George and Robert, met with Yellow Wolf and his Cheyennes in 1831 at the mouth of the Purgatoire; the Big Timbers fort was established in the Vicinity.
		An important peace council of southern Plains tribes was held at the new Fort William (Bent's Fort) in the summer of 1835.
		William Bent married Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, about 1837, and he "became an Indian in many aspects." Trade was extended to the Comanches after a peace council in 1840 at the fort, and the Bents influence extended deep into New Mexico.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/biography/wbent.htm (537 words)

	Charles Bent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bent, Charles, frontiersman (Nov. 11, 1799-Jan. 19, 1847).
		By 1833 Bent "was recognized as one of the leading Santa Fe traders," and he continued an average one round rip a year until his death.
		By 1832 Bent had established a residence at Taos, married a Spanish-American widow of good family and become involved in political and other controversies, developed "special standing" with Governor Manuel Armijo and various leaders.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/biography/cbent.htm (327 words)

	William Bent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Silas Bent, was one of several brothers, a lieutenant in the navy, and went with Perry's squadron to Japan, and was one of the first graduates, at Annapolis, from Missouri.
		William Bent built a palatial mansion in Kansas City, near the border of Missouri-Kansas state line, in Westport, which was occupied by him, on his many visits "westward" and there several of his children were born.
		Bent's Fort was a rustic palace; built in rectangular form, 100 by 150 feet.
	www.eadseagles.com /williambenttext.htm (1190 words)

	Albuquerque Tribune Online: Arts & Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Governor Bent House: This house on Bent Street just north of the Plaza in Taos was the home of St. Vrain's friend and partner, Charles Bent, who was named governor of New Mexico after the U.S. occupied it during the Mexican War.
		Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain had stores in Santa Fe and Taos, and in 1833, with Bent's brother William, they built the famous Bent's Fort, a great adobe compound at the conjunction of the Arkansas and Purgatoire rivers in Colorado.
		Charles Bent, St. Vrain's partner, was made governor of the occupied region.
	abqtrib.com /diversions/tourism/022499_ceran.shtml (2339 words)

	Bent, St. Vrain and Company
		William and Charles Bent were sons of a wealthy and influential St. Louis judge.
		George Bent was the son of William Bent and Owl Woman.
		Their reputation was such that in 1846, the fort (then known as Bent's Fort) was used as headquarters for the Upper Platte and Arkansas Indian Agency.
	www.sangres.com /history/bentstvrain.htm (900 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William Bent
		At the center of this network stood Bent's Fort, a massive adobe outpost on the north bank of the Arkansas River in present-day Colorado, which William Bent constructed in 1833 and where he served as field manager of the company's far-flung operations.
		Life at Bent's Fort involved prolonged contact with the Indian peoples of the southern Plains, and like many white traders and trappers, William Bent came to occupy a sort of cultural middle ground between the Indian and white worlds.
		His brother Charles, meanwhile, joined the militant "Dog Soldiers," a group of young Cheyenne warriors committed to driving the Americans from their homeland by any means necessary.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/bent.htm (659 words)

	IMA Hero: Reading Program Santa Fe Trail
		Charles Bent was the older brother of William Bent.
		Charles used oxen on his trip because he reasoned oxen were too awkward for an Indian to ride, and its meat was too tough to eat.
		Charles is credited with the idea of forming a partnership of having one partner stay in Santa Fe to sell goods while the other partner brought goods from Missouri.
	www.imahero.com /readingprogram/trailsantafe.html (2909 words)

	National Park Service - Soldier and Brave (Bent's Old Fort)
		Bent's Old Fort, on the north bank of the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado, was one of the most significant outposts on the Santa Fe Trail and as the principal outpost of American civilization on the southwestern Plains was instrumental in shaping national destiny there.
		Among the earliest western fur traders were the brothers William and Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain, all of whom in the 1820's began to engage in the Mexican and Indian trade.
		Powerful as the Bents and St. Vrain were, as the War with Mexico (1846-48) approached, events beyond their control were destined to destroy the company and the trade.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/soldier/sitea9.htm (1159 words)

	Rice Cousins who emigrated to Nova Scotia - Person Page 10
		Asa Bent estate was probated on 15 February 1853 at Annapolis, Annapolis Co, Nova Scotia; with a letter of assignment to widow Ann Bent and Elias Bent of Annapolis.
		Charles Bent was born circa 1880 at Nova Scotia.
		Clara Bent married James E Brooks, son of John Brooks and Alice (?), on 30 November 1897 at Middleton, Kings Co, Nova Scotia; James declared age 22, living at Centreville and born at Harbourville; Clara declared age 20 and born at Paradise.
	www.widomaker.com /~gwk/Planter/p10.htm (3713 words)

	Earl Fischer Database of St. Louisans
		She was married to Charles VALLE on 25 Feb 1783 in St Louis King Fr, St Louis, St Louis Distr.
		Charles Bent CARR was born on 28 Jul 1836 in, (St Louis).
		Charles Bent CARR was born on 31 Aug 1867 in, St Louis, St Louis Co, MO. He died on 2 Jun 1900.
	www.stlgs.org /efdb/d113.htm (757 words)

	Bent's Old Fort NHS Learning Page - People of Bent's Fort
		Among the people employed at Bent's Fort were interpreters William Guerrier and John Smith.
		Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Ute, and Lakota were among the languages spoken in the Bent trading empire.
		During the era of Bent's Fort, Anglo men, and later their mixed blood sons and daughters translated Indian dialects at the behest of merchants, travelers, and Indian agents.
	www.nps.gov /beol/learn_people.htm (477 words)

	Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut - Person Page 407
		Frederick Arthur Sapp married Ruth Bent, daughter of Charles Bent and Decima Manington, on 18 February 1901 at Knox, IN.
		She was the daughter of Charles Bent and Decima Manington.
		Ruth Bent married Frederick Arthur Sapp, son of Francis Marion Sapp and Mary A. Finch, on 18 February 1901 at Knox, IN.
	www.holcombegenealogy.com /data/p407.htm (1047 words)

	The
		Charles Bent, a mild conservationist did not like marketing wild game and felt this country should be open to Sportsmen.
		Charles Bent brought his family, wife Elizabeth (Lizzy), son Austin and daughters Elsie and Mamie (Polly) from Abrams, Wis. More cabins were built, mostly of Tamarack logs and laid directly on the ground and because of their rot resistance may still be there.
		The Bents summer home, the ‘Kings Castle’ was a two story log cabin in the center of the Camp with porches on all sides that had railings make of small round Cedar.
	www.gogebic.org /ciscohis.htm (1011 words)

	Charles Bent — FactMonster.com
		The company was one of the most prominent on the frontier, and
		William Bent - Bent, William Bent, William, 1809–69, American frontiersman, b.
		Bent's Fort - Bent's Fort Bent's Fort, trading post of the American West, on the Arkansas River in...
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0807056 (171 words)

	Bent's Old Fort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bent's Fort was built in 1833 by Williams and Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vain.
		It is thought that William Bent had tried to burn the fort down.
		Charles Bent--He became the provisional governor of New Mexico.
	www.scsc.k12.ar.us /2003outwest/WilliamsA (472 words)

	Black Fur Traders and Frontiersmen
		At Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River, a trio of slaves were well known and mentioned by several visitors in their diaries and narratives.
		Charles Bent, one of the founders and partners in the fort operation, had brought from St. Louis his slave Charlotte, who was assigned the task of preparing food and drink for the fort employees and visitors.
		Charles Bent had been appointed Territorial Governor and in an attempt to rid New Mexico of the hated gringos a plot to kill all 'Norte Americanos" was hatched in Taos in January of 1847.
	www.coax.net /people/lwf/FURTRADE.HTM (2410 words)

	La Plaza - Governor Bent House and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Governor Bent House and Museum and Gallery of Western Art Home of New Mexico's first American governor, early trader, trapper and mountain man. Charles Bent was a highly respected, much loved figure of the Old West.
		The Governor Bent House is the scene of his death.
		The Bent House is located one block north of the Plaza and one-half block west of the Taos Inn on Bent Street.
	www.laplaza.org /art/museums_bent.php3 (232 words)

	Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
		David and Charles Koch, sons of the ultraconservative founder of Koch Industries, Fred Koch, direct the three Koch family foundations: the Charles G. Koch Foundation, the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.
		Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute, and David Koch co-founded Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) [now FreedomWorks], where he serves as chairman of the board of directors.
		Charles Koch is a board member at the Mercatus Center, which describes itself as a "research and education center [that] generates knowledge and understanding of how institutions affect the freedom to prosper and holds organizations accountable for their impact on that freedom."
	www.mediatransparency.org /funderprofile.php?funderID=9 (2733 words)

	Boggsville Historic Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bent's Old Fort had been the center of fur trade in the area until shortly after the New Mexico Territory became part of the United States (1848).
		This settlement was founded on a branch of the Santa Fe Trail about 1862 by Thomas O. Boggs (son of a granddaughter of Daniel Boone), his wife Rumalda Luna Bent (a stepdaughter of Charles Bent), L.
		Both men had worked for the Bent brothers and Charles St. Vrain in their trading enterprises on the Santa Fe Trail, at Bent's Old Fort, and Taos (Mexican Territory).
	www.phsbc.info /boggs.htm (1018 words)

	This Day in History
		The eldest of four brothers who all became prominent frontiersmen, Charles Bent began his involvement with the Wild West in 1822, when he left Virginia at the age of 23 to become a trader for the Missouri Fur Company.
		Bent's new wife and his considerable wealth helped him win acceptance among the Mexican political elites, and he became a close associate of the New Mexican governor, Manuel Armijo.
		Dragging Bent's mangled body through the streets of Taos, the mob called for a full-scale rebellion against the American occupation, and by the end of the evening, 15 other Americans had been killed.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=oldwest&month=10272953&day=10272984 (476 words)

	Charles Bent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Bent (1799-1847) was appointed as the first Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory by Governor Stephen Watts Kearny in September, 1846.
		Bent was born in 1799 in Charleston, West Virginia (then Virginia).
		This page was last modified 18:14, 6 April 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Bent (82 words)

	Maçonnieke encyclopedie-B.
		Charles Bent was born at Charlestown, Va., in 1797, studied medicine, graduated from West Point.
		Bent was (along with the famous Senator Benton) a founding member of Missouri Lodge, No. 1, St. Louis, in 1821.
		Charles F. Forshaw, Doncaster, England, who died in 1800, was for a number of years widely known as a Masonic musician.
	www.dancing.org /tsmr/.books/mackey/BMAP~1/BSUP-01.HTM (2774 words)

	American Western Artists at Art Bronze Casters: CHARLES M. RUSSELL
		Charles M. Russell was born near the end of the Civil War in Oakhill, just outside St. Louis, Missouri.
		His great uncles, Robert and George Bent, built the fur-trading outpost known as Bent's Fort in what is now Colorado.
		His great uncle Charles Bent was the first Anglo governor of New Mexico Territory.
	www.artbronzecasters.com /russell.html (321 words)

	ICT [2004/09/30] May I Suggest ... "Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent"
		William Bent was one of 11 children born to Silas Bent, a prominent judge, and Martha Kerr, a highborn of Virginia.
		It was here that the Bent brothers heard stories of the great explorers such as Lewis and Clark and the guides who led them into the vast landscape of the frontier.
		Although risky, this venture paid off and became the foundation for a partnership between Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain, a Sante Fe trader and former mountain man. This relationship transformed the fur trade in the Southwest as it made both men successful and wealthy legends on the Santa Fe Trail.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096408932 (683 words)

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