# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bent
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:26.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bent"
name: "William Bent"
slug: "william-bent"
description: "William Wells Bent was a frontier trader and rancher in the American West, with forts in Colorado. He also acted as a mediator among the Cheyenne Nation, other Native American tribes and the expanding United States. With his brothers, Bent established a trade business along the Santa Fe Trail. In the early 1830s Bent built an adobe fort, called Bent's Fort, along the Arkansas River in present-day Colorado. 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. 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."
tagline: "American rancher (1809–1869)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Bent%2C_Bent's_Fort.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1809-05-23"
deathDate: "1869-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.026604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "ويليام بنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bent"
    title: "William Bent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bent"
    title: "William Bent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88"
    title: "ウィリアム・ベント"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Бент, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4083867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump