A while back I posted an LJ entry about George Bent (http://voidmonster.livejournal.com/241433.html).
It's really odd to be related to the Bents. Since Sand Creek, the family fortunes haven't precisely risen. Family lore says William lost his house and land (a giant plot in what is now Kansas City's plaza) in a poker game. They blew up the fort in Nebraska. By the time it got down to my generation, no one is even quite certain which Bent we come from. A lot of things got lost in the Depression, including family history, but looking at it this far out it looks an awful lot like Sand Creek is where it started to fall apart.
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Date: 2010-04-16 05:47 pm (UTC)It's really odd to be related to the Bents. Since Sand Creek, the family fortunes haven't precisely risen. Family lore says William lost his house and land (a giant plot in what is now Kansas City's plaza) in a poker game. They blew up the fort in Nebraska. By the time it got down to my generation, no one is even quite certain which Bent we come from. A lot of things got lost in the Depression, including family history, but looking at it this far out it looks an awful lot like Sand Creek is where it started to fall apart.