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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
	©1996

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Bent's Fort (Colo.) -- History.
	Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (Colo.) -- History.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado -- Bent's Fort.
	Frontier and pioneer life.
	Colorado -- Bent's Fort.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Comer, Douglas C. Ritual ground. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996 0520204298 (DLC) 96008766 (OCoLC)34730369
ISBN	9780520918702 (electronic book)
	0520918703 (electronic book)
	0585057516 (electronic book)
	9780585057514 (electronic book)
	9780520207745 (paperback)
	0520207742 (paperback)
	9780520204294 (alkaline paper)
	0520204298 (alkaline paper)
	0520204298
	0520207742