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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495963503321

Autore

Comer Douglas C

Titolo

Ritual ground : Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest / / Douglas C. Comer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 1996

ISBN

0-520-91870-3

0-585-05751-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 321 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Disciplina

978.8/95

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - Colorado - Bent's Fort

Frontier and pioneer life - Bent's Fort - Colorado

United States Local History

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

Bent's Fort (Colo.) History

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Colo.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to do with ritual, Douglas Comer argues that the fort grew and prospered because of ritual and that ritual shaped the subsequent history of the region to an astonishing extent.