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1798 - Born in April 26th in Virginia. American mountain man who lived for an extended period among the Indians.
1810 - His father took him to Louisiana Territory and eventually to St. Louis and there apparently manumitted him, for he was thereafter regarded as a “free Negro”.
1823 - Beckwourth signed on as a groom with a fur-trading expedition.
1824 - He was hired to handle the horses on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
1833 - He returned to white settlements, apparently abandoning his Indian wives.
1848 - He established a route through the Sierras for Easterners en route to California after gold was discovered there.
1855 - Began ranching, mostly with stolen horses, until he was chased out by vigilantes.
1856 - He encountered a wandering journalist, Thomas D. Bonner, who recorded many of the frontiersman's yarns and recollections in a book that made his subject famous for a time: The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, Pioneer and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians.
1859 - He returned to Missouri but soon joined the flood of settlers bound for Colorado.
1864 - He served, probably as a guide and interpreter for U.S. troops, in the Cheyenne War, then settled near Denver.
1867 - Died on Denver, Colorado.
- His death during a visit to the Crow is variously described as occurring on a hunting trip or by poison at the hands of a former wife.
1810 - His father took him to Louisiana Territory and eventually to St. Louis and there apparently manumitted him, for he was thereafter regarded as a “free Negro”.
1823 - Beckwourth signed on as a groom with a fur-trading expedition.
1824 - He was hired to handle the horses on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
1833 - He returned to white settlements, apparently abandoning his Indian wives.
1848 - He established a route through the Sierras for Easterners en route to California after gold was discovered there.
1855 - Began ranching, mostly with stolen horses, until he was chased out by vigilantes.
1856 - He encountered a wandering journalist, Thomas D. Bonner, who recorded many of the frontiersman's yarns and recollections in a book that made his subject famous for a time: The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, Pioneer and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians.
1859 - He returned to Missouri but soon joined the flood of settlers bound for Colorado.
1864 - He served, probably as a guide and interpreter for U.S. troops, in the Cheyenne War, then settled near Denver.
1867 - Died on Denver, Colorado.
- His death during a visit to the Crow is variously described as occurring on a hunting trip or by poison at the hands of a former wife.
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