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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Charles Bent"”.
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Manifest Manhood on the Santa Fe Trail: Trapping and Trading in the American Southwest, 1821-1847
… examines the lives of men like Kit Carson and Charles Bent, and it translates how they viewed themselves and the cultural "others" with whom they traded, fought, courted, and married. Reexamining the history of the Santa Fe Trail-scape as a cultural contact zone gives a better accounting for …
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""They Asked for Traders Amongst Them": Buffalo Robes, the Santa Fe Trade, and Social Change on the South Plains 1817-1858”
This dissertation focuses on the South Plains during the Mexican period and investigates how the Santa Fe trade network increased interest in the region from all sides even as the people who did the actual trading played tribes and nations off each other in pursuit of profits and advantages. …