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Title
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James Beckworth
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Description
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File containing illustrations and information about James Beckwourth (ca. 1795-1864), an early African American mountain man of the Rocky Mountains. He passed through the Kansas City area several times on his western travels starting in the 1820s.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Mapping the Beckwourth Trail
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Description
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Article about the Beckwourth Trail in Nevada and California and its trailblazer, James Beckwourth (1798-185?), a half-black son of "Sir Jennings Beckwith and a slave woman," an explorer and fur trapper on the Santa Fe Trail and west to California, with photos and map of his trail, an offshoot of the main route of the California Trail.
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Date
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1994
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Short biography of Jim Beckwourth (1798-1866), noted fur trapper, mountain man, army scout.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
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Description
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Photo of and biographical chapter about James Beckwourth (1798-1866), "[o]ne of the fur trappers and traders of the American frontier who played a significant role in the exploration of the trans-Mississippi west," starting Western expeditions in 1824 with William H. Ashley's third fur trapping expedition to the Rocky Mountains and dying just after the Civil War.
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Book
