Jim Beckwourth
Subtitle: Black trapper and Indian chief
By: by Wyatt Blassingame ; illustrated by Herman Vestal.
Contributors: Vestal, Herman B., ill.
Edition: 1st Chelsea House ed.
Series: A Discovery biography
Publisher: Chelsea Juniors
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
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.; Explorers.; African Americans -- Biography.
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.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Champaign, Ill. : Garrard Pub. Co., c1973.