1. What are the benefits and drawbacks of constructing a fort out of adobe in the borderlands? 2. How might the choice of constructing a military-looking fort have been harmful to the business in the long term? Objective The lesson will illustrate how available natural resources and labor often determine architectural choices as in the construction of Bent's Fort in 1832. Background INTRO: At about fourteen years of age, Lewis H. Garrard, read John C. Fremont’s Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains , an account published in U.S. newspapers in 1843. Fremont’s descriptive acc Duration: 60 Minutes.