William Bent
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William Wells Bent was a frontier trader and rancher in the American West, with forts in Colorado. He also acted as a mediator among the Cheyenne Nation, other Native American tribes and the expanding
1845 Santa Fe Trail and native tribal lands
Old Bent's Fort, Sketch by Lt. James Abert, published 1914
A view from outside Bent's Old Fort (reconstruction)
Daniel Jenks traveled to Colorado territory in 1859 in search of gold. While there, he made this sketch of Bent's New Fort, which is one of the earliest known images of the fort." Photo courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Dept.
Owl Woman
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Owl Woman was a Cheyenne woman, a daughter of White Thunder, a well-respected medicine man of the Cheyenne tribe. She was married to an Anglo-American trader named William Bent, with whom she had four
William Bent
…many Plains tribes north and south of the Arkansas River, as well as between the Native American and the United States government. In 1835 Bent married Owl Woman, the daughter of White Thunder, a Cheyenne chief and medicine man. Together they had four children. Bent was accepted into the Cheyenne tribe and became…
Drawing of Owl Woman (Mis-stan-stur) by Lt. James Abert
A view inside Bent's Old Fort