La Junta, CO

After being blown across Kansas, we arrived in La Junta (The Junction) CO.

We spent Sunday being tourists and visited the Old Bent Fort .  This was a trading fort build by two brothers from Independence MO.  Their main customers were the Indians who traded furs and buffalo hides for goods from the east.  The Fort operated from the 1830's through the early 1840's.  The Fort sat on the Arkansas River and the Santa Fe Trail and was the first stop for many traveler heading west.  The Fort was on the them US- Mexico border.  The Fort was later used as a staging point for the Us-Mexican War.