George Bent papers, 1904-1926

Letters to George E. Hyde describe George Bent's life with the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Comanches, Kiowas, Sioux and other tribes of the Arkansas and Platte valleys. They include accounts of the Indian wars, with personal narratives of the Chivington massacre, the Julesburg raid, Platte Bridge, Brave Bear's Report of the Custer Massacre, and statements of Indians who took part in these and other battles

Accompanied by in box 3: George Bird Grinnell's "Bent's Old Fort and Its Builders," Kansas State Historical Society Collections. XV (1923):28-91.; reproduction of a photograph of George Bent and his wife; lithographs of two views of Bent's Fort with a reproduction; three manuscript maps, Bitter Lake Region, Bent's Fort Region, and Dodge City Region; and a letter from George Bird Grinnell to Morris H. Briggs