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"Beckwourth," said a Captain Donohue, "I have been defending your character for a long time, and I now want you to clear up matters for yourself."
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"Beckwourth," said the general, you have a splendid lot of horses, really; they must have cost you a great sum of money. "
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Coolbrith's biographer, Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel, gives this account of the crossing: Jim Beckwourth, noted Black mountaineer rode slowly ahead of the column of seventeen worn and creaking schooners.
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The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, written from his own dictation by T. D. Bonner New York, 1856, 63.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, written from his own dictation by T. D. Bonner New York, 1856, 63.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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In 1866 he set out with the company from Omaha, Nebraska, and began the trek through the West which would bring him past hostile Sioux into the company of fabled black guide Jim Beckwourth and finally to California.
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The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, written from his own dictation by T. D. Bonner New York, 1856, 63.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Although James Clyman and that wild liar James Beckwourth said that LaBarge had been killed, he was not killed.4 Hiram Chittenden, in his biography of the son, Captain Joseph LaBarge, reports that the father carried a tomahawk scar on his head—perhaps from the Wyoming attack, although he was in other Indian fights on the Missouri.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Although James Clyman and that wild liar James Beckwourth said that LaBarge had been killed, he was not killed.4 Hiram Chittenden, in his biography of the son, Captain Joseph LaBarge, reports that the father carried a tomahawk scar on his head—perhaps from the Wyoming attack, although he was in other Indian fights on the Missouri.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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At the pass, Beckwourth dismounted and helped the girl off the horse.
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