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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

La Junta, CO

A reconstructed 1840s adobe trading fort stands on the Santa Fe Trail where traders, travelers and Indigenous nations interacted on the borderlands. Living-history interpretation and the massive adobe reconstruction make it an unusually immersive historical stop.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/beol/index.htm

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