The best book on Bent’s Fort is David Lavender’s Bent’s Fort, although Mark Lee Gardner wrote a great Historic Resource Study for the park about 10 years ago; it sure would be nice to see that published.
My favorite fort anecdote is when a Cheyenne medicine man used sandburs coated with buffalo grease to remove what was likely a diphtheritic membrane from William Bent’s throat—probably saving Bent’s life and changing the course of history.
One of my favorite history quotations
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