Santa Fe Trail Bicentennial Symposium Bents Old Fort Living History Encampment Fremont Expedition
Description: Major General John C. Fremont in his prairie costume illustrated in Harper's Weekly July 13, 1861. [Courtesy of the Western History Department at the Denver Public Library; Z-3801]
Santa Fe Trail Bicentennial Symposium Bent's Old Fort Living History Encampment Fremont Expedition Reenactment of 1843
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site hosted a Living History Encampment during the Santa Fe Trail Bicentennial Symposium Sept. 22-26, 2021. The Living History Encampment represented a day in the life at Bent's Old Fort in 1843. That year the Fremont Expedition returned to the fort on it's journey to the Oregon Coast.
Transcript from Video:
"This is Fremont's second expedition in 1843. I am Lieutenant Fremont and I am in charge of the expedition and our order from the Colonel J.J. Abert of the Corps of Topographical Engineers is to make an accurate map of our journey to the Oregon coast in Oregon Territory. Last year in 1842 we mapped the Oregon Trail from West Port to South Pass in the Rocky Mountains."
"And this time we're heading the Rocky Mountains and we're going to re-map the salt lake across the Rocky Mountains and follow the rest of the Oregon Trail out to the pacific coast. The Wilks Expedition 1838-1842 has already mapped the coastline and we're going to add our accurate locations and mapping to their maps so that the United States will have a map that goes all the way to the Oregon Territory with Accurate Latitudes and Longitudes."
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[Courtesy of the Western History Department at the Denver Public Library; Z-3801]
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