Blood in the Borderlands : Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Into the West -- 2. Marriage, Business, and Diplomacy in the Great Plains -- 3. Marriage, Business, and Diplomacy in New Mexico -- 4. Collapse -- 5. Fifty-Niners, Freighters, and Schoolchildren -- 6. The Road to Sand Creek -- 7. War, Diplomacy, and Land Grants -- 8. Reservations, Ranches, and Respectability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Bent family. Bent, Charles,-1799-1847. Bent, William,-1809-1869. Businessmen-United States-Biography. Frontier and pioneer life-West (U.S.). West (U.S.)-Biography. West (U.S.)-History.