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  • Thumbnail for Ceran St. Vrain
    Ceran St. Vrain, born Ceran de Hault de Lassus de Saint-Vrain (May 5, 1802 – October 28, 1870), was the son of a French aristocrat who emigrated to the...
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  • Bent, St. Vrain & Company was a fur trading and Indian trading business active from 1830 to 1849, in the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and...
    5 KB (431 words) - 19:38, 30 August 2021
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    September 1846. Bent had been working as a fur trader in the region since 1828, with his younger brother, William, and later partner Ceran St. Vrain. Though his...
    12 KB (1,075 words) - 21:18, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Saint Vrain
    Fort Saint Vrain was an 1837 fur trading post built by the Bent, St. Vrain Company, and located at the confluence of Saint Vrain Creek and the South Platte...
    5 KB (429 words) - 17:10, 31 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
    quickly became the center of the Bent, St. Vrain Company's expanding trade empire, which included Fort Saint Vrain to the north and Fort Adobe to the...
    14 KB (1,355 words) - 22:19, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Early history of the Arkansas Valley in Colorado
    1835. Bent, St. Vrain & Company was a partnership formed in New Mexico by Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain, traders on the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis...
    17 KB (2,095 words) - 21:17, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Felix St. Vrain
    become known as the St. Vrain massacre. He was the brother of Ceran St. Vrain, a St. Louis fur trader who was the partner of the Bent Brothers. Together...
    9 KB (745 words) - 22:00, 22 September 2023
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    of the British claim to North America. Its administrative centre was Fort St. James. The rest of what is now mainland British Columbia was called the Columbia...
    13 KB (866 words) - 08:36, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manifest destiny
    the operations of a fur trading and Indian trading business named Bent, St. Vrain and Company during the period. The telling of this company shows that...
    115 KB (13,903 words) - 14:10, 24 May 2024
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    of Fort Vasquez, Colorado, near Platteville. In 1840, he moved to Bent, St. Vrain & Company. Later that same year, Beckwourth became an independent trader...
    23 KB (2,749 words) - 20:02, 17 April 2024
  • took as their partner Ceran St. Vrain. George and Robert, born in St. Louis, joined in their brothers' enterprise. William Bent married a Cheyenne woman...
    15 KB (1,573 words) - 21:49, 1 May 2024
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    as the people whom the government's military would be aiding, the Bent, St. Vrain and Company stated to be the most influential Indian trading company...
    23 KB (2,521 words) - 03:45, 19 May 2024
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    William Bent was likely trapping furs before the first stockade was built. St. Vrain and his older brother, Charles, made the round trips to St. Louis...
    47 KB (6,378 words) - 14:20, 20 January 2024
  • Texas state archeological landmark. As early as 1835, the trading firm Bent, St. Vrain & Company, housed in teepees and temporary log cabins, established...
    13 KB (1,657 words) - 15:03, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for North American fur trade
    America. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-39889-1. Campbell, Marjorie Wilkins (1957). The North West Company. New York: St. Martin's Press. Dolan...
    96 KB (13,717 words) - 17:51, 18 April 2024
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    Ocean, part 3. Vol. 2: Charts of the islands and fur-seal rookeries of St. Paul and St. George, Pribilof group, Alaska. Washington: U.S. Government Printing...
    148 KB (17,483 words) - 04:54, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hutchinson County, Texas
    camped in this area, as did Comanche, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Cheyenne. Bent, St. Vrain and Company established a trading post in this area to tap into Indian...
    22 KB (1,943 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2024
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    Block. The Peace River Country includes the incorporated communities of Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Tumbler Ridge and Chetwynd in British Columbia. Major...
    10 KB (776 words) - 06:42, 16 April 2024
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    American William Bent, founder of the trading post named Bent's Fort and a trading partnership with his brothers and Ceran St. Vrain. Bent was born near...
    19 KB (2,572 words) - 03:18, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bent's New Fort
    from taking the fort without paying him. It was also in 1849 that the Bent, St. Vrain & Company trading organization was dissolved. There are some sources...
    11 KB (1,232 words) - 14:36, 14 March 2024
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