Letter to the Editor: Questions About Bent’s Old Fort and Its Management
Questions About Bent’s Old Fort and Its Management By Steve Keefer There is a lot of uproar about changes in how Bent’s Old Fort is managed. It is my understanding that there was a consultant hired to do an assessment of interpretation and sta...
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Bents Old Fort: Local Officials Urge Preservation of Unique Tourist Attraction
Bents Old Fort: Local Officials Urge Preservation of Unique Tourist Attraction Otero County, Colorado – February 7, 2024 - In a heartfelt letter addressed to the National Park Service, officials from Otero County, Colorado express their strong s...
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Letter to the Editor Concerning Bent's Old Fort: Good Cats are Hard to Find by Duke Frazier
Letter to the Editor Concerning Bent's Old Fort: Good Cats are Hard to Find By Duke Frazier For 16 years it stood the test of time, a hub of international commerce, a place where cultures inter-mixed, a place where lives began and lives ended. It ...
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Letter to the Editor: Staffords Call for Bent's Old Fort Public Meeting
Letter to the Editor: Staffords Call for Bent's Old Fort Public Meeting Historians tell us that Bent's Old Fort was never attacked. Now, it seems, this grand reconstruction of the fabled fort is being attacked from within, leaving La Junta's one m...
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Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Dec 2023 Operations Review By Prycer Consulting
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Dec 2023 Operations Review By Prycer Consulting "In Fall 2023, Prycer Consulting was hired to do a general interpretation and staffing assessment for three sites within the High Plains Group: Amache Natio...
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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site Dec 2023 Operations Review by Prycer Consulting
This document was obtained from Highplains District Superintendent Eric Leonard. Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site "In Fall 2023, Prycer Consulting was hired to do a general interpretation and staffing assessment for three sites within the Hi...
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Bent's Old Fort NHS Update from Park Superintendent Eric Leonard
Bent's Old Fort NHS Update from Park Superintendent Eric Leonard "Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site remains committed to preserving Bent’s Old Fort and the story of its significance in America’s history." "The park is undergoing a perio...
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Experience what the Holidays may have been like at Bent’s Old Fort on December 2, 2023
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Experience what the Holidays may have been like at Bent’s Old Fort on December 2, 2023 La Junta, CO – The sights, sounds, and smells of what the Holiday Season may have been like at Bent’s Old Fort in the 1830s and 1840s will be on full disp...
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Bent's Fort Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail El Nino Loco: Miguel Antonio Otero, Jr. Nov 11, 2023
El Nino Loco: Miguel Antonio Otero, Jr. Members and friends of the Bent’s Fort Chapter will meet November 11 at the Koshare Museum on the Otero College Campus in La Junta. The meeting will begin at 1pm where attendees will be entertained by Dr. ...
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Santa Fe Trail Association Founding President Marc Simmons Passes
Santa Fe Trail Association Founding President Marc Simmons Passes Marc Simmons, the founding president of the Santa Fe Trail Association and renowned historian of the Southwest, passed away Thursday, September 14 in a memory care unit at La Vida L...
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