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Bookmark or Share- Charles Bent - WikipediaCharles Bent (November 11, 1799 – January 19, 1847) was an American businessman and politician who served as the first civilian United States governor of the New Mexico Territory, newly invaded and occupied by the United States during the Mexican-American War by the Military Governor, Stephen Watts Kearny, in September 1846 until his ...
- Architecture born of earth and community - U.S. National Park ServiceBent wrote in 1905 that his uncle Charles hired approximately 100 New Mexicans from Taos to produce the adobes for the fort. To make the adobes, a shallow mixing pit was created onsite where the mud and straw were mixed together by the feet of the workers and simple implements such as shovels and hoes. This adobe mixture was then packed into ...
- The Assassination of Charles Bent - True West MagazineNew Mexico’s first Territorial governor, Charles Bent, a Taos resident since 1832, was outspoken against the Hispanic majority during his one-year tenure in office. On January 19, 1847, Pueblo Indians, fighting for the Hispanic leaders of the Taos Revolt, scalped and killed him in front of his family in his home.
- Charles Bent | New Mexico Governor, Territorial Politician, Military ...Charles Bent (born Nov. 11, 1799, Charleston, Va. [now in West Virginia], U.S.—died Jan. 19, 1847, Taos [New Mexico]) was a fur-trading pioneer who became civil governor for the United States of the newly captured province of New Mexico.
- Blood in the Borderlands: The Rise and Fall of Charles Bent, 1829-1847At the time of his violent death in 1847, Charles Bent was one of the most powerful men in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He first came to New Mexico in 1829 and rapidly became an economic powerbroker in the region.
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