Index

Abert, Lieutenant James: Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
abolitionists: Bleeding Kansas; Imperialism
adobe: Fort Union (Caption); Fort Union Jail (Caption); Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
Adobe Walls: Bent's Old Fort
Alta California: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
American Fur Company: Fort Union, MT; Centennial (Caption)
Apache: Kearny Proclamation
Arkansas River: Santa Fe Trail; Fort William; Bent's Old Fort
Armijo, Manuel: Imperialism; Las Vegas
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway: Dodge City, KS; Las Vegas, NM
Bank of the United States, Second: Santa Fe Trail
Barlow and Sanderson Stagecoach Line: Mahaffie Farmstead (Caption)
Bent's Old Fort: Arkansas River; Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail; Main Entry ; destruction (Caption)
Bent, Charles: Mexican-American War; Bent's Old Fort; Main Entry
Bent, George: Main Entry
Bent, St. Vrain & Company: finances; Bent's Old Fort
Bent, William: Bent's Old Fort; Main Entry
bigotry: Mexicans; Indians; Catholic Church
Bleeding Kansas: Main Entry
Boise City, OK: Heart of the Dust Bowl
Boonslick: Santa Fe Trail; Bleeding Kansas
Boonslick, MO: trail head; Santa Fe Trail
Brown, John: Bleeding Kansas
Buffalo Soldiers: Fort Larned
bull boat: Main Entry (Caption)
Burton, Sir Richard F.: Closing of the Frontier
California: Statehood
California gold rush: Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
California Trail: Missouri River
Camino real, El: Santa Fe Trail; guía
Campesino, El: Las Vegas, NM (Caption)
Canadian River: Adobe Walls
Carson, Kit: Bent's Old Fort
Case Eagle: Santa Fe Trail Center (Caption)
Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Catholicism: Kearny Proclamation; Liberation Theology
cattle drive, Texas: Dodge City, KS
Centennial: James Michener (Caption)
Cheyenne: Arkansas River
cholera: Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
Cimarron River: Main Entry
Cimarron Route: Santa Fe Trail
Cimarron Strip: Oklahoma Panhandle
Cinco de Mayo: Foreign Intervention
Clayton, NM: Orejas de conejos (Caption)
Cohen Brothers: No Country for Old Men (Caption)
Comanche: Orejas de conejos (Caption); Arkansas River
Compromise of 1850: New Mexico Territory; Fort Union; New Mexico Territory
Conestoga Wagon: Fort Larned; Main Entry (Caption)
Cooper, Stephen: Missouri Mules (Caption)
Custer, General George Armstrong: Hancock's War
Dodge City, KS: trail head; Cimarron Strip
Dog Soldiers: George Bent
dollar: peso de ocho
Dry Route: Santa Fe Trail
expansionists: Imperialism
Fitzpatrick, Thomas: Bent's Old Fort
flag: Bent's Old Fort
Florida: Statehood
Fort Buford: Montana
Fort John: Fort Laramie, WY (Caption)
Fort Laramie: Wyoming (Caption)
Fort Larned: Arkansas River; Santa Fe Trail; Main Entry ; E. E. Frizell
Fort Leavenworth: Mahaffie Farmstead (Caption)
Fort Leavenworth, KS: trail head
Fort Scott: Mahaffie Farmstead (Caption)
Fort St. Vrain: Bent's Old Fort
Fort Union: Santa Fe Trail; Battle of Glorieta Pass; Main Entry ; Star Fort (Caption); Montana
Fort William: Bent's Old Fort
Franklin, MO: Santa Fe Trail (Caption); William Becknell
Frizell, E. E.: Fort Larned, KS (Caption)
Frizell, KS: Santa Fe Trail Center
Frontier Thesis: Frederick Jackson Turner
Frémont, General John C.: Closing of the Frontier; Bent's Old Fort
fur press: Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
Gallinas River: Las Vegas, NM
Gilded Age: Las Vegas, NM
Glorieta Pass, Battle of: Main Entry ; Fort Union
gold rush: Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
Great Bend, KS: Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail
Great Plains: Battle of Glorieta Pass
Green, Charlotte: Bent's Old Fort
Green, Dick: Bent's Old Fort
Grinnell, George Bird: George Bent
Gunsmoke TV Drama: Dodge City, KS (Caption)
guía: shipping manifest
Hancock's War: Fort Larned
Hancock, General Winfield Scott: Fort Larned
hide press: Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
High Plains: Battle of Glorieta Pass
Hyde, George E.: George Bent
Idaho: Statehood
Independence, MO: trail head; Mahaffie Farmstead (Caption)
Indian Wars: Fort Union; Buffalo Soldiers; George Bent
J. Huston Tavern: Arrow Rock, MO (Caption)
J. I. Case Company: Santa Fe Trail Center (Caption)
Jackson, William H.: &quote;Sinching the Load&quote; (Caption)
Juárez, Benito: Foreign Intervention
Kansas City, MO: trail head
Kearny, Stephen W.: Mexican-American War; Kearny Proclamation
La Junta, CO: desert
Lamar, Mirabeau B.: Republic of Texas
Las Vegas, NM: Main Entry
Lexington, MO: trail head
Liberation Theology: Taos Revolt
Little Dixie: Boonslick
Lopez, Peter: Las Vegas, NM (Caption)
Louisiana Purchase: Bent's Old Fort
Mahaffie Farmstead: Main Entry
Manifest Destiny: Taos Revolt
Martínez, Fr. Antonio José: Charles Bent
Maximilian: Foreign Intervention
McMurtry, Larry: Dead Man's Walk
Mexican War of Independence: Santa Fe Trail
Mexican-American War: Imperialism; Charles Bent; Arkansas River
Mexico: Arkansas River
Michener, James: Centennial (Caption)
Missouri: Statehood
Missouri Mule: Santa Fe Trail; international trade in
Missouri River: Santa Fe Trail; emigrant trails
Mormon Trail: Missouri River
Mountain Route: Santa Fe Trail; National Old Trails Road; Bent's Old Fort
mule: Santa Fe Trail; international trade in; Kearny Proclamation
National Old Trails Road: Santa Fe Trail
nationalists: Republic of Texas
Navajo: Kearny Proclamation
New Mexico: Main Entry ; Statehood
New Mexico Territory: Fort Union; Charles Bent; Arkansas River
No Country for Old Men: Cohen Brothers (Caption)
Nuevo México: Santa Fe Trail; Main Entry
O'Keefe, Georgia: Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
Ohkay Owingeh: El camino real
Old Abe: J. I. Case Company (Caption)
Oregon Trail: Missouri River
Orejas de conejos: Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field (Caption)
Palace of the Governors: Santa Fe, NM
Panic of 1819: Santa Fe Trail
Pawnee River: Fort Larned
Pecos River: Glorieta Pass
peso: Santa Fe Trail
pieces of eight: Santa Fe Trail
Plaza Hotel: Las Vegas, NM (Caption)
plow: Santa Fe Trail Center (Caption)
Polk, James K.: Imperialism
public house: Mahaffie Farmstead
Rabbits' Ears: Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field (Caption)
rain shadow: Rocky Mountains; Rocky Mountains (Caption)
Raton Pass: Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail
Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field: Orejas de conejos
religion, freedom of: Kearny Proclamation
Republic of Text: Imperialism
Rio Grande River: Santa Fe Trail; Glorieta Pass
Rocky Mountain Fur Company: Thomas Fitzpatrick
Rocky Mountains: rain shadow; rain shadow (Caption)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Harry S. Truman
ruts: Fort Union (Caption)
Ruxton, George: Bent's Old Fort
San Juan Pueblo: El camino real
Sand Creek Massacre: Hancock's War; George Bent
Sangre de Cristo Mountains: Glorieta Pass; vista
Santa Fe Trail: Main Entry
Santa Fe trail Center: Main Entry
Santa Fe, NM: Santa Fe Trail; Main Entry ; Mahaffie Farmstead (Caption)
Schoolcraft, Henry: Charles Bent
Secession: Texas
Second Bank of the United States: Santa Fe Trail
Sharon Springs, KS: High Plains (Caption)
Sherman, General William Tecumseh: Closing of the Frontier
silver dollar: peso de ocho
Sitting Bull: Closing of the Frontier
slavery: Bleeding Kansas; Bent's Old Fort
soddy: Main Entry
South Platte River: Fort St. Vrain
Spanish peso: Santa Fe Trail
St. Vrain, Ceran: Bent's Old Fort
stagecoach stop: Mahaffie Farmstead
Stars and Stripes: Bent's Old Fort
Statehood: Missouri; Texas; New Mexico; California; Idaho; Wyoming; Florida; Texas
steamboat: Santa Fe Trail
Stone, Milburn: Doc Adams in Gunsmoke (Caption)
Taos Revolt: Imperialism; Charles Bent
Texas: Statehood; Secession; Statehood; Stars and Stripes; Arkansas River
Trade Routes: Santa Fe Trail
Trail: Santa Fe; Mormon; California; Oregon
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Imperialism
Trinidad, CO: desert
Truman, Harry S.: Four-Mule Hitch
Turner, Frederick Jackson: Closing of the Frontier
virga: meteorological phenomenon (Caption)
volcanic field: Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field
wagon: Santa Fe Trail; Fort Larned; Conestoga Wagon (Caption); Bent's Old Fort (Caption)
Wagon Mound, NM: geological feature (Caption)
well house: Santa Fe Trail Center
Wislizenus, Friedrich Adolph: Bent's Old Fort
Wooton, Richard L.: Toll Road over Raton Pass
Wounded Knee Massacre: Closing of the Frontier
Wyoming: Statehood