The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the handbooks and books which have been published for this park. NPSHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

cover only Bent's Fort David Lavender 1957	Bent's Old Fort State Historical Society of Colorado 1977, reprint 1979	cover only Bent's Fort: Crossroads of Cultures on the Santa Fe Trail Melvin Bacon and Daniel Blegen 1995	cover only Ritual Ground Douglas C. Comer 1996
cover only Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site Mark L. Gardner 1998	cover only The Adobe Castle of the Santa Fe Trail: The History & Reconstruction of Bent's Old Fort Emil Gimeno 2004