situated to take map (above). Map Pueblo, this conveys important friendship that History, Exploration advantage not only of highlights the photograph shows the messages about the sometimes formed and Settlement, the fertile land at the centrality of Colorado importance of mobility clash of cultures at the between trappers and Commerce, Historic confluence of rivers, to the original Spanish to the Colorado Ute trading post. The Ute Natives. El Pueblo Non-Aboriginal and but sixty miles closer territories and the peoples. The nomadic lived in communal, was a stop along the Historic Aboriginal to the foothills than cultural origins of culture of the Ute nomadic bands. Sites Trail,” a Peoples. The location “Taos Bent’s fort, which settlers in New Mexico nation clashed with like El Pueblo and network along of the El Pueblo site is helped it attract the and Colorado. that of settled Anglos Bent’s fort were easy the Sangre de Cristo the junction of 1st trade of trappers. and Hispanics. targets for those Ute mountains of Southern Street and Union horsemen who saw Colorado. Before Avenue in Pueblo. these settlements as mining, the fur trade easy pickings or was the main threats to their economic motive for territory. American activity in the Rockies. Foundations Annotations Curriculum Connections History Economics Geography
situated to take advantage not only of the fertile land at the confluence of rivers, but sixty miles closer to the foothills than Bent’s fort, which helped it attract the trade of trappers. map (above). Map highlights the centrality of Colorado to the original Spanish territories and the cultural origins of settlers in New Mexico and Colorado. Pueblo, this photograph shows the importance of mobility to the Colorado Ute peoples. The nomadic culture of the Ute nation clashed with that of settled Anglos and Hispanics. conveys important messages about the clash of cultures at the trading post. The Ute lived in communal, nomadic bands. Sites like El Pueblo and Bent’s fort were easy targets for those Ute horsemen who saw these settlements as easy pickings or threats to their territory. friendship that sometimes formed between trappers and Natives. El Pueblo was a stop along the “Taos Trail,” a network along the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Southern Colorado. Before mining, the fur trade was the main economic motive for American activity in the Rockies. History, Exploration and Settlement, Commerce, Historic Non-Aboriginal and Historic Aboriginal Peoples. The location of the El Pueblo site is the junction of 1st Street and Union Avenue in Pueblo. Foundations Annotations Curriculum Connections History Economics Geography