Life of George Bent Written from His Letters

Name: Life of George Bent Written from His Letters
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ISBN: 9780806115771

ISBN-10: 0806115777

ISBN-13: 9780806115771

Edition: N/A

Authors: George E. Hyde, Savoie Lottinville

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George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains. This correspondence, which continued to the eve of Bent's death in 19 18, is the source of the narrative here published, the narrator being Bent himself. Nearly thirty-eight years have elapsed since the day in 1930 when Mr. Hyde found it impossible to market the finished manuscript of the Bent life down to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 2/15/1968
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English