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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Otero County, Colorado
Adjacent to Otero County, Colorado
▶ Bent County (5) ▶ Crowley County (2) ▶ Kiowa County (11) ▶ Las Animas County (24) ▶ Pueblo County (8)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| Near State Highway 194 0.1 miles east of County Road 35, on the right when traveling east. |
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John C. Fremont
His name appears on almost any roll of Western pathbreakers. Fremont’s expeditions were instrumental in opening the Southwest. He visited the fort on three of his first four expeditions to the West.
Susan . . . — — Map (db m71849) HM |
| Near State Highway 194 0.1 miles east of County Road 35, on the right when traveling east. |
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A Mud Castle Rises
In 1833, Bent, St. Vrain & Company built a trading post on the semi-arid reaches of the Arkansas River on the U.S. border with Mexico. Few if any buildings in the American West approached Bent’s Fort in size and . . . — — Map (db m71847) HM |
| Near State Highway 194 0.1 miles east of County Road 35. |
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Edward Dorris
Died July 21, 1865
Aged 31 years
2 Ms. 28 Ds.
EDWARD Thou Hast Gone to Rest
In This Far Country of the West
Brothers and Friends Mourn and Weep
Thou in this Tomb Dost Sweetly Sleep
Edward Dorris, a . . . — — Map (db m71850) HM |
| Near State Highway 194 0.1 miles east of County Road 35, on the right when traveling east. |
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I wish I was capable to do Bent and St. Vrain justice for the kindness received at their hands. I can only say their equals were never in the mountains.
- Christopher “Kit” Carson
Charles Bent
Charles Bent led . . . — — Map (db m71848) HM |
| On State Highway 194 0.3 miles east of County Road 35, on the right when traveling east. |
| | For centuries, the Arkansas River Valley has been an important travel corridor that has shaped our nation’s history.
Long before the fort was built, wildlife, native peoples, European explorers, trappers, and traders traveled through this river . . . — — Map (db m71851) HM |
| Near State Highway 194 0.1 miles east of County Road 35, on the right when traveling east. |
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In winters northers howled ... In summer temperatures climbed above the hundred-degree mark ... Spirits shriveled as respiratory organs dried; lips cracked and eyes burned ... it took a particular kind of spiritual iron to survive ... . . . — — Map (db m71846) HM |
| On N. 9th Street north of Swink Avenue (U.S. 50), on the left when traveling north. |
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Born in Kentucky in 1836
Came to Colorado in 1871
Established a general merchandise store and (trading post) at a rocky ford on the Arkansas River.
Moved store and family to present site in 1876, when Santa Fe Railroad was extended . . . — — Map (db m70390) HM |
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