Jim Beckwourth: Black trapper and Indian chief.
By: Illustrated by Herman Vestal.
Contributors: Vestal, Herman B., illus.
Series: A Discovery book
Publisher: Garrard Pub. Co.
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866 -- Juvenile literature.; Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866.; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Trappers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American trappers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Biography.; Explorers.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Biography of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, Indian chief, trader, gold seeker, innkeeper, and rancher who discovered a pass in the Sierra Nevadas which bears his name.