Bent-Hyde Papers

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Arkansas River area – locating Bent's Stockade, Bent's Old Fort, Big Timbers, Sand Creek

Work map – Indigenous trails, Colorado Springs, Las Animas, 1916

Cheyenne and Sioux trail in 1865; camp at Mud Springs where Col. William O. Collins was surrounded

Little Bear's statement, Sand Creek, April 14

"Last of Col. Bent's Sons Dead," article of George Bent's death by George Hyde, November 1918

George Bent and wife Magpie or Black Bird

Points on the south side of the Arkansas River

Positions of various Indigenous "Soldier Societies" at the time of the Platte Bridge fight

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The Bent-Hyde Collection consists of original maps detailing locations of Indigenous nations in North America and military positions in areas such as Sand Creek, the Arkansas River, etc. The collection also includes correspondence between George Bent, a Cheyenne-American interpreter, George Hyde, a white historian, and George Grinnell, a white anthropologist while covering the years 1905-1918. George Bent, born in Bent's Fort in 1843, is the son of William Bent, a white rancher and trader, and Mestaa'ėhehe or Owl Woman, eldest daughter of the Cheyenne leader at the time. As a witness of the Native American wars and conflicts in Colorado during the late 1800's, Bent became a mediator and translator for the Cheyenne. As a result, he became an interpreter for George Hyde, a well known historian and interpreter of Native American life whom Bent assisted in documenting life on the Plains before 1875. Bent and Hyde corresponded from 1905 until Bent's death in 1918.

Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.25810/DQB9-6747