"Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to the death of William Bent in 1869, exploring how one family lived and negotiated within shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests"--
"Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to the death of William Bent in 1869, exploring how one family lived and negotiated within shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests"--
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful …
"Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to the death of William Bent in 1869, exploring how one family lived and negotiated within shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests"--