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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

La Junta, Colorado - Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site. The fort was an important trading post on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1830s and 1840s as the United States expanded southwest into what was then Mexico. A National Park Service employee in period costume demonstrates how wagon wheels were repaired.

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Image Description:	La Junta, Colorado - Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site. The fort was an important trading post on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1830s and 1840s as the United States expanded southwest into what was then Mexico. A National Park Service employee in period costume demonstrates how wagon wheels were repaired.
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