
Historical Figures: Archbishop Lamy, Charles Bent, Billy the Kid, Kit Carson, Willa Cather, Flying Priest, Pat Garrett,
Greer Garson, Geronimo, Conrad
Hilton, Mable Dodge Lujan, Fred
Lambert, John Gaw Meems, Robert
Ollinger, Millicent
Rogers, Will
Schuster, Carrie
Tingley, Lew
Wallace
Museums:
American
International Rattlesnake Museum,
City
of Las Cruces Log Cabin Museum,
Cleveland
Roller Mill Museum,
E.L. Blumenschein
Home & Museum,
Kit
Carson Home & Museum,
Farmington
Museum, El
Malpais National Monument,
Fort
Selden State Monument,
Fort Union
National Monument,
Harvey
House Museum,
Historical
Center For Southeast New Mexico,
Lincoln
State Monument,
Las
Vegas City Museum & Rough Rider Memorial,
Miles
Mineral Museum,
New
Mexico Farm & Ranch
Heritage Museum,
Old
Mill Museum,
Palace of the Governors,
Pecos
National Historical Park,
Raton
Museum,
Roosevelt
County Museum,
Silver
City Museum,
Tucumcari
Historical Museum
Charles Bent
Charles Bent (1799-1847) was appointed as the first Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory by Governor Stephen Watts Kearny in September, 1846. He was assassinated on January 19, 1847 during the Taos Revolt.
Bent was born in 1799 in Charleston, West Virginia, and attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. After leaving the army, he and his younger brother William in 1828 took a wagon train of goods from St. Louis to Santa Fe. There they established mercantile contacts and began a series of trading trips back and forth over the Santa Fe Trail which resulted, in 1832, in a partnership with Ceran St. Vrain, a local fur trader, called Bent & St. Vrain Company.
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