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August 4, 2011

Education and Research

This page lists different information sources and documents pertinent to the history of Bent's Fort and the Santa Fe Trail.  This section will also be used to make available rare or hard to obtain documents in an electronic format.
Bents Fort Bibliography:  This is one of the most comprehensive lists of books, documents, and sources for information related to Bent's Fort. 
Fort Jackson Trading Camp Inventory 1837  This inventory is from the surviving business records for Fort Jackson, one of the American Fur Company posts. 
Bent's Stockade:  Hidden in the Hills, by W.C.Hurd copyright 1960, printed by the Bent County Democrat.  Hurd conducted considerable research and field work into discovering the location of Bent's Stockade which preceded the construction of Bent's
Old Fort.  Either reprinting this book or publishing online as a .pdf is a future project which BOFHA intends to undertake.   
Life At Bent's Fort:  This is an article by George Bird Grinnell which appeared in  Forest and Stream Magazine in the  January 22, 1910 issue.
As Built Engineering Plan of Bent’s Fort by James Abert, in 1846.  This diagram was instrumental in the reconstruction of Bent’s Old Fort in 1976.  

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Map of the Santa Fe Trail Through Colorado Relocated and Monumented, 1908.  Original document is in the State Engineer's Office, Division of Water Resources, Colorado State.  An uncompressed version of this file is available by request from the Webmaster.  The monuments were placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1908.  At the time the monuments were placed, the Santa Fe Trail had been in disuse for less than 40 years, and the ruts of the trail were still plainly visible in many places.  The image at left shows the monument near Granada, Colorado.  The inscription on the monument reads:  Santa Fe Trail; 1822-1872; Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution; Zebulon Pike Chapter; 1908.