Scope and Contents CHAPTER I The Bent family - Charles and William Bent on the Upper Missouri - Expedition to the Upper Arkansas - Meeting with the Hevhaitanio chiefs - The building of Bent's Old Fort - Smallpox in the Mexican stockade- Kit Carson' s fight with the Crows - The family at the fort - Mexican captives among the Indians - The wagon-train - The cholera of '49 - War with Mexico - Kearny's army at Bent's Fort. - The march to Santa Fe - Charles Bent appointed first American governor of New Mexico - He is...