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| St. Vrain's Fort website
links The Taos Massacres |
A website
dedicated to providing information about St. Vrain's Fort has provided a
link to The Taos Massacres.
St. Vrain's Fort was built by Ceran St. Vrain and the
Bent brothers in 1837 near present-day Platteville, Colorado.
Ceran St. Vrain appears as a major character in The Taos
Massacres, and both Charles Bent and William Bent figure in the
story.
Joe Pinner, who maintains the St. Vrain's Fort website,
hopes that St. Vrain's Fort will someday be reconstructed along the
model of Bent's Fort near La Junta, Colorado. Built after years of
painstaking research, Bent's Fort is a replica of the original fort that
is maintained by the National Park Service as a national historic site.
St. Vrain's Fort served
as the site of the first post office and courthouse for Weld County
before it fell into disuse and eventually disappeared. The site is now
marked by a monument.
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