William was one of the Bents' eleven children. His father was later appointed as a justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. Louis, Missouri, a son of Silas Bent and his wife, Martha (nee Kerr) Bent.
4 Native American relationships and negotiations.
Bent died shortly after their marriage, and Adaline bore their daughter, his sixth child, after his death. Each of the sisters left Bent and, in 1869, he married the young Adaline Harvey, the educated mixed-race daughter of Alexander Harvey, a friend who was a prominent American fur trader in Kansas City, Missouri. After Owl Woman died in 1847, Island cared for her children. In the 1840s, according to the Cheyenne custom for successful men, Bent took Owl Woman's sisters, Eagle Woman and Island, as secondary wives. Bent was accepted into the Cheyenne tribe and became a sub-chief. In 1835 Bent married Owl Woman, the daughter of White Thunder, a Cheyenne chief and medicine man. Bent negotiated a peace among the many Plains tribes north and south of the Arkansas River, as well as between the Native American and the United States government. Furs, horses and other goods were traded for food and other household goods by travelers along the Santa Fe trail, fur-trappers, and local Mexican and Native American people. In the early 1830s Bent built an adobe fort, called Bent's Fort, along the Arkansas River in present-day Colorado. With his brothers, Bent established a trade business along the Santa Fe Trail. He also acted as a mediator among the Cheyenne Nation, other Native American tribes and the expanding United States. William Wells Bent (– May 19, 1869) was a frontier trader and rancher in the American West, with forts in Colorado.
Three Native American wives who were sisters: Owl Woman, Yellow Woman, and Island ( Cheyenne) Partner with Charles, George, Robert, and William Bent and Ceran St. Las Animas Cemetery, south of Las Animas, Colorado
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