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Title
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Charles Bent
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Description
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Information about Charles Bent (1798-1847), part owner of Bent's Fort in Kansas Territory and native of Saint Louis, murdered at his home in Taos while serving as governor of New Mexico. Also a brother of William W. Bent of Westport.
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Vertical File
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Title
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Charles Bent
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Description
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Biographical chapter in the book about Charles Bent (1799-1847), "fur trapper and trader, Santa Fe trader, part owner of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas [River], and governor of New Mexico." He was a native of Virginia raised in Saint Louis, Missouri and became a surveyor and clerk for fur trading companies such as the Missouri Fur Company, with whom he first went to the Southwest in the early 1820s. He became associated with Andrew Drips, David Waldo, William Waldo, brother William Bent, Albert Pike, and others in and around New Mexico before co-founding Bent's Fort with partner Ceran Saint Vrain (Bent, St. Vrain and Company) west of Santa Fe. He was "appointed the first U.S. civil governor of New Mexico" in 1846 following the Mexican War but a year later was "brutally slain in his own house" during "the Taos Revolt of January 19, 1847."
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Date
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1997
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Object Type
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Book
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Ceran St. Vrain
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Description
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Biographical chapter of the book about Ceran Saint Vrain, or Ceran St. Vrain (1802-1870), a fur trader native to the area of Saint Louis, Missouri raised partly with the family of Bernard Pratte, Sr. He became a clerk with the Prattes' fur trading store in Saint Louis before progressing into the Santa Fe trade about 1824 with Francois Guerin. He later became one of the most prominent of far Western businessmen in association with the Bents, and some of his later Southwestern activities involved Milton Sublette, David Waldo, Antoine Robidoux, Charles Bent, Colonel Henry Dodge, Pierre Chouteau, Colonel S. W. Kearny, and other notables. On one trip he stopped at Fort Leavenworth with partner Charles Bent in 1846.
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Date
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1997
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Object Type
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Book
