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Billiards helped travelers and employees cope with boredom, idleness, and loneliness. Journals and diaries mention that cards and gemes of backgammon, chess, and checkers were played to ease the long days and nights. Susan Magoffin exclaimed that "I hear the cackling of chickens at such a rate sometimes I shall not be surprised to hear of a cock-pit." William Bent's son George, recalled that "across one end of the room ran a counter or bar, over which drinkables were served." The company's 1839 ledger shows a diverse assortment of drink; 12 boxes claret wine, 37 gallons brandy, and 58 gallons of rum. Lt. James Abert used the room as an art studio, positioning a Cheyenne model "upon the billiard table." The man "sat perfectly motionless" until the painting was completed and then asked that his name "Bear Above" be written underneath.
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Billiards helped travelers and employees cope with boredom, idleness, and loneliness. Journals and diaries mention that cards and gemes of backgammon, chess, and checkers were played to ease the long days and nights. Susan Magoffin exclaimed that "I hear the cackling of chickens at such a rate sometimes I shall not be surprised to hear of a cock-pit." William Bent's son George, recalled that "across one end of the room ran a counter or bar, over which drinkables were served." The company's 1839 ledger shows a diverse assortment of drink; 12 boxes claret wine, 37 gallons brandy, and 58 gallons of rum. Lt. James Abert used the room as an art studio, positioning a Cheyenne model "upon the billiard table." The man "sat perfectly motionless" until the painting was completed and then asked that his name "Bear Above" be written underneath.
Billiards helped travelers and employees cope with boredom, idleness, and loneliness. Journals and diaries mention that cards and gemes of backgammon, chess, and checkers were played to ease the long days and nights. Susan Magoffin exclaimed that "I hear the cackling of chickens at such a rate sometimes I shall not be surprised to hear of a cock-pit." William Bent's son George, recalled that "across one end of the room ran a counter or bar, over which drinkables were served." The company's 1839 ledger shows a diverse assortment of drink; 12 boxes claret wine, 37 gallons brandy, and 58 gallons of rum. Lt. James Abert used the room as an art studio, positioning a Cheyenne model "upon the billiard table." The man "sat perfectly motionless" until the painting was completed and then asked that his name "Bear Above" be written underneath.
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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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