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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows

Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows

Wilson, Elinor

Paperback

Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryNative American History

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0806115556
ISBN13: 9780806115559
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Dec 15 1980
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.41
Language: English

Dismissed as a gaudy liar by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to rank alongside Kit Carson, Bill Williams, Louis Vasquez, and Jim Bridger.

Sometime around 1800 James Beckwourth was born a slave in Frederick County, Virginia, the natural son of Sir Jennings Beckwith and a slave girl. In 1810 Sir Jennings moved with his family to the wilderness of St. Louis, Missouri, where Jim was educated and eventually apprenticed to a blacksmith. His father recorded a Deed of Emancipation in his name on three different occasions, sending young Jim out into the world with his blessings.

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