biography
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| lived:
| (1799–1847)
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| biography:
| Trader, born in Charleston, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA. He entered the fur trade early, and with his brother, William Bent, and Ceran St Vrain, built Bent's Fort (1828–32) in present-day La Junta, CO. He became the civil governor of New Mexico (1846), but was killed in an uprising of Mexicans and Pueblo Indians. |
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