Alejandra – First Lady of the New Bent’s Old Fort
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site is an accurate re-creation of the original fort structure 1833-1849, built on the original site located along the bank of the Arkansas River on the Santa Fe Trail in what is now southwestern Colorado.
Alejandra Aldred-Adams shares her stories and experiences as a National Park Service employee, guide and interpreter from her career that stretched from 1968 to the fall of 1995. She demonstrated and taught park visitors the “Living History” of daily life at the fort. Her hands-on demonstrations showed how to tan a buffalo hide, milk cows, churn butter, make adobe bricks, prepare meals over an open fire that was started with flint and steel, and the many various chores that were carried out daily by the Mexican women laborers that worked the fort during its hey-day.
March 2021
106 pages 6×9 in. paperback 36 Color photographs/10 b&w
ISBN# 978-1943829-33-0
$15.95
Learn about Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site, one of Southern Colorado’s finest treasures.
Get to Know the Author
Alejandra began her career as a Federal Service Employee at the administrative branch of the Pueblo Army Depot, Pueblo, Colorado. In 1965 she was appointed to Food and Drug Administration in Arlington, Virginia. Her next assiment was to the U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C. in 1966. After two years with the Department of Justice, Alejandra transferred to the National Park Service and served at Bent’s Old Fort National Park at La Junta, Colorado. Serving as acting Park Superintendent, and administrator and coordinator of programs within the Interpretative Division until 1977. Her years as a National Park Service representative garnered her many awards for outstanding service and achievements for performance excellence. She was promoted to the position of Assistant Chief Ranger in 1990 and retired from service as Chief Ranger in 1995 completing 27 years of outstanding service and established an exemplary legacy.
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