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Thomas Boggs John Prowers Amache Ochinee Rumalda Luna Boggs Kit Carson William Bent P.G. ScottThe First Public School Teacher Vigil and St. Vrain Land Grant Long before Boggsville, the Arkansas Valley was known to Native American peoples. Buffalo were plentiful. Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes were frequent visitors and Apache, Comanche, Kiowa and Navajo came too. … Read more

Thomas and Rumalda Boggs House John and Amache Prowers House The Santa Fe Stage Company at Boggsville Days Making Adobe Bricks at Boggsville Days, The First Saturday in October The Race Is On at Boggsville Days The Ghost of George Wick, Editor of the Bent County Democrat,Appears at the Voices of the Passed Cemetery Tour … Read more

Welcome to the Blind Tiger Speakeasyat the Art Guild Annual Dinner Santa Fe Trail Theme Winner at the Santa Fe Trail DayArt Show The Ghost of Ambassador Thompson Appears at the Voices of the Passed Cemetery Tour Mexican Dancers Performing at Boggsville Days Preparing for Christmas at the Museum January 10 So & Sews Rawlings … Read more

Leroy Campbell was born on October 20, 1847, on the family farm near Roanoke, Virginia. The Civil War broke out when he was 14 years old and he was a fan of the rebel cause. As soon as he was 16, he ran away to join the army. As family lore tells it, Campbell had … Read more

Peter G Scott was the first schoolteacher in Boggsville. He later became a clerk in the first bank, the Bent County Bank of Las Animas, Colorado, and would rise to become the bank’s president. He tells his own story in a letter to Miss Beach, of Rocky Ford, Colorado, July 16, 1921. This is a … Read more

William Bent Charles Bent William Bent and his older brother, Charles were born near St. Louis, Missouri, on a sprawling farm overlooking the Missouri River. They were two of the 11 children of a prominent and well-connected judge, Silas Bent, and a high-born Virginian, Martha Kerr. As children, the brothers and sisters heard tales of … Read more

Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson was born on Christmas Eve, 1809. An American frontiersman, he was a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer who became a frontier legend. Dime store novels and news articles exaggerated his exploits, painting him a fierce Indian fighter and fearless survivor of the elements. His contemporaries, on … Read more

Rumalda Luna was born into the influential Jaramillo family in Taos, New Mexico Territory, in 1831. Taos was then a northern outpost of Mexico and newly independent from Spain. Although Santa Fe was the political capital of the province, Taos was an important trade center. Rumalda’s family was well known to traders and business people in the … Read more

John Wesley Prowers was born January 29, 1838, near Westport, Missouri. His father died when John was two, leaving his mother, 22-year-old Susan, alone in the wilderness. She soon remarried but he did not get along with his stepfather and left home at the age of 18. John found employment as a clerk with Robert Miller, agent … Read more