Utilizing archival photographs, artifacts, works of art, live on-site footage, and live interviews with people connected to the stories you'll explore the feelings and emotions of a 19-year-old bride who made the trip from Westport Landing, Missouri, to Santa Fe with her new husband. The stories behind the young trapper and adventurer Louis Gerrard are told, as well as the story of the culinary expertise of Charlotte Green, the black slave of William...

"During the height of the Fur Trade, Bent's Fort established itself as one of the most important trading posts in the West -- an area which remained largely unexplored by the then-young-and-growing United States. Located along the Arkansas River, Bent's Fort lay only a few yards from what was then Mexico. As the only major permanent settlement along the Santa Fe Trail, it served as a hub of commercial and cultural exchange for Cheyenne and Arapahoe...