Kids Invited to Experience Bent's Fort

By Greg Holt

February 27, 2004

Applications are now being accepted for Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site's annual "Kid's Quarters" event to be held on Saturday, June 12, 2004. Children ages seven to eleven are invited to experience what life was like for the 1840s laborer, trader/clerk, soldier, blacksmith, Plains Indian, hunter/trapper, domestic laborer or carpenter.

Activities will include blacksmithing, carpentry, cooking, military drills, Indian crafts and skills, beaver trapping, adobe making, and livestock use and care.

Pre- registration and payment of a $4.00 non- refundable program fee are required. The program is limited to the first 80 registered children. Applications may be obtained at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site offices at 35110 Highway 194 East or 402 Santa Fe Avenue, La Junta, Colorado or by calling (719) 383- 5026.