{"product_id":"blood-in-the-borderlands-conflict-kinship-and-the-bent-family-1821-1920-hardback-9781496202420","title":"Blood in the Borderlands; Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821–1920 (Hardback) 9781496202420","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlood in the Borderlands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821–1920\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid C. Beyreis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496202420\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 May 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 10 photographs, 5 illustrations, 2 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"The author is to be commended for his writing style, his wordsmithing, his command of sources, and his ability to balance the rather confused historiography on the building of Bent's Fort and its demise. His narrative is easy to follow, and his analysis is a compliment to his training. . . . Students of the fur and robe trades and those focusing on the Santa Fe Trail will find this book indispensable.\"-William R. Swagerty, \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Well-researched and well-written, \u003ci\u003eBlood in the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e is a very readable account of the Bent Family. The integration of kinship as an analytical framework makes this book more than the sum of its parts, and anyone with an interest in the nineteenth-century Southwest borderlands will find this work of interest.\"-William S. Kiser, \u003ci\u003eSouthwestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This book is a concise multigenerational saga of the Bent family in Colorado, New Mexico, and Indian Territory, particularly as their fortunes intertwined with the plight of the Southern Cheyennes, with whom the Bents intermarried and conducted business. . . . Beyreis combines the epic scope of earlier accounts like David Lavender’s \u003ci\u003eBent's Fort\u003c\/i\u003e (1954) with concepts of intercultural exchange in line with more recent scholarship, including Elliott West's \u003ci\u003eThe Contested Plains\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and James Brooks's \u003ci\u003eCaptives and Cousins\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).\"-R. L. Dorman, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlood in the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e reads well and utilizes deep research to make a compelling argument in a book that tells a nuanced history of the southwestern borderlands through the lives and generations of the Bent family.\"-Hayden L. Nelson, \u003ci\u003eKansas History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This is a remarkable book about what may well have been the most remarkable family of the American West. . . . Nimbly negotiating the color line, the Bents sometimes sided with the American state and sometimes challenged it to protect their Cheyenne kin. As told by David Beyreis, their story forces us to think hard about what it took for a family to survive in the West.”-Pekka HÄmÄlÄinen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Comanche Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlood in the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e brings all the major players of this fascinating borderlands family into a single frame in a brisk, well-told story that illuminates the transformation during the nineteenth century of the central plains and what became the U.S. Southwest. . . . \u003ci\u003eBlood in the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare volume that really should appeal to scholars and lay people alike.”-Andrew R. Graybill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFinalist for CSAW’s Outstanding Western Book of 2021\u003cbr\u003e Historical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar PÉrez de VillagrÁ Award \u003cbr\u003e Santa Fe Trail Association's Louise Barry Writing Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful Indian tribes, governed territories, became Indian agents, fought against the U.S. government, acquired land grants, and created historical narratives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Bent family’s financial and political success through the mid-nineteenth century derived from the marriages of Bent men to women of influential borderland families-New Mexican and Southern Cheyenne. When mineral discoveries, the Civil War, and railroad construction led to territorial expansions that threatened to overwhelm the West’s oldest inhabitants and their relatives, the Bents took up education, diplomacy, violence, entrepreneurialism, and the writing of history to maintain their status and influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBlood in the Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e David C. Beyreis provides an in-depth portrait of how the Bent family creatively adapted in the face of difficult circumstances. He incorporates new material about the women in the family and the “forgotten” Bents and shows how indigenous power shaped the family’s business and political strategies as the family adjusted to American expansion and settler colonist ideologies. The Bent family history is a remarkable story of intercultural cooperation, horrific violence, and pragmatic adaptability in the face of expanding American power. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599881105688,"sku":"9781496202420","price":33.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blood-in-the-borderlands-conflict-kinship-and-the-bent-family-1821-1920-hardback-9781496202420","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}