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
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