Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Jim Beckwourth. - 1 Black and White Photograph

Master list item #: 36

File location is in the Raton file Cabinet

Black and White photographs

Love of adventure called the fur trappers into the Rocky Mountain wilderness; ability to beat the Indian at his own game enabled them to take pelts without losing their own scalps This is Jim Beckwourth, a Mulatto Trader and former slave, who became chief of the Crow Indian nation. He was a member of General Ashley's first trapping party in the Rockies in 1824.


Beckwourth, Jim


Crown Indian Nation


Mulatto Trader Photographs


Rocky Mountains

New Mexico - Cimarron & Chase Ranch - Photos 36