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Trapper and Taos trader, Ceran St. Vrain was the son of a noble family dispossessed during the French Revolution of 1789. He was well-known and highly respected in Santa Fe, and his relationships in New Mexico were invaluable to the Bents. When St. Vrain was away, his quarters became a guest room. One of the most notable guests was Lieutenant James Abert, a topographical engineer surveying the west with a U.S. Army expediton. In 1845, Abert described peace talks between the Cheyenne and the Delaware, and sympathized with the changes forced on the Indians by white settlers. As a naturalist, he sketched and studied the plants and animals of the area. While recuperating from an illness in 1846, the drew plans of the fort, which provided architects with the necessary information to rebuild it in 1976.
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Trapper and Taos trader, Ceran St. Vrain was the son of a noble family dispossessed during the French Revolution of 1789. He was well-known and highly respected in Santa Fe, and his relationships in New Mexico were invaluable to the Bents. When St. Vrain was away, his quarters became a guest room. One of the most notable guests was Lieutenant James Abert, a topographical engineer surveying the west with a U.S. Army expediton. In 1845, Abert described peace talks between the Cheyenne and the Delaware, and sympathized with the changes forced on the Indians by white settlers. As a naturalist, he sketched and studied the plants and animals of the area. While recuperating from an illness in 1846, the drew plans of the fort, which provided architects with the necessary information to rebuild it in 1976.
Trapper and Taos trader, Ceran St. Vrain was the son of a noble family dispossessed during the French Revolution of 1789. He was well-known and highly respected in Santa Fe, and his relationships in New Mexico were invaluable to the Bents. When St. Vrain was away, his quarters became a guest room. One of the most notable guests was Lieutenant James Abert, a topographical engineer surveying the west with a U.S. Army expediton. In 1845, Abert described peace talks between the Cheyenne and the Delaware, and sympathized with the changes forced on the Indians by white settlers. As a naturalist, he sketched and studied the plants and animals of the area. While recuperating from an illness in 1846, the drew plans of the fort, which provided architects with the necessary information to rebuild it in 1976.
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Typical smells in the kitchen may have been cottonwood smoke, spices, grease droppings, and the rank odor of spoiled meat and rotting foodstuffs. Amidst flying towels, steam, and clanging pots one could find the cooks. Several were employed at the fort, but William Bent's slave, Charlotte received greater notice for her famous "flapjacks and pumpkin pies." Visitor George Ruxton wrote of her "foods that were celebrated from Long's Peak to the Cumbres Espanoles." Archeological depositis uncovered include wild game such as duck, turkey, pronghorn, venison, and buffalo. The ledgers of Bent, St. Vrain and Company of 1839 included flour, dried peaches, cheese, rice, almonds, raisins, 1,190 pounds of bacon sides, and 2 barrels of pork in addition to large amounts of coffee, tea, sugar, salt, molasses, and produce from New Mexico. Wild greens were used as spice and medicine.

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