Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows - Paperback
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Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows
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...
Elinor Wilson, who grew up in Trinidad, Colorado, ?at the foot of the equestrian statue of Kit Carson, ? searched out every scrap of information available to her to prove that Jim Beckwourth was certainly no liar, but was, instead, a man of towering physical strength, indomitable courage, excellent judgment, and without peer in his knowledge of Indian ways. Mr. Wilson, a...
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