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Title: Bent's Fort by David Sievert Lavender ISBN: 0803257538 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: 1972 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25
Rating: 3
Summary: A Dated History of the Fur Trade
Comment: David Lavender wrote Bent's Fort in 1954. His book has all of the virtues of a popular history written during that time period. The story is driven by bigger than life characters forging history in an exotic locale. However, David Lavender's book also shares the weaknesses of a history written at that time. The Indians are "Red Savages" and the Mexicans are lazy and shiftless. Unfortunately, David Lavender writes with the easy racism that was common in the pre civil rights era.
This book is a must for anyone wanting to learn about the Fur Trade in the Southern Rockies. Most of the people who read this book will probably not be bothered by Lavender's thoughtless racism. However, I am waiting for a new history of Bents Fort. A history that is more nuanced and takes advantage of the tremendous advances made in the study of the American West during the last fifty years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Engrossing
Comment: This is one of the all-time great histories. Well-written, as fascinating as any action-adventure fiction, but one comes away from reading this book with the feeling that you have really been there with the Bent. One of the many neglected stories of our history, and one that needed to be told. Lavender did a magnificent job with it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb
Comment: One fantastic, engrossing book! Bent's Fort is in southeastern Colorado and this book gives the history of that area along with Taos and Sante Fe. Couldn't put the book down. The fort bordered what was then the United States and Mexico. We see how the Bent brothers establish a trading post along the Arkansas River in the 1830's and began a long career of not only in trading with the Indians and Mexicans, but also get involved in the uprising of hostilities between Mexico and the United States. The cultural descriptions of our Native Americans is very well done. It is a great read and as another reviewer said, it is as if the characters simply come alive and you feel as though you know them personally.
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Title: One Man's West by David Sievert, Lavender, William A. Smith ISBN: 0803258550 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: 1977 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent by David Sievert Lavender ISBN: 0803280033 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Big Divide: The Lively Story of the People of the Southern Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to Santa Fe by David Sievert Lavender ISBN: 0785813764 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Commerce of the Prairies by Josiah Gregg ISBN: 1589760182 Publisher: The Narrative Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail by Lewis H. Garrard ISBN: 0806110163 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 1979 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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