Jim Beckwourth
Subtitle: Black Mountain Man, War Chief of the Crows, Trader, Trapper... (Revised Edition)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: January 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780806115559
Subjects: Local history; Pioneers; U.S. Local History - Missouri River Valley States; Biography / Autobiography; General; USA; Trappers; Beckwourth, James Pierson,; 1798-1866; African American pioneers; Biography; West (U.S.)
First sentence: Young men on American frontiers of the 1820s were as adventurous and daring as in any age and they had one great advantage over the generations that succeeded them: adventure lay at their back door.