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James P. Beckwourth and His Trail

by | Jan 20, 2023 | Features & Gunfights

The legendary mountain man left a legacy of truth and fiction about his larger-than-life experiences as a trapper and trailblazer of the American West. Mountain man James Beckwourth was born around 1800 in Virginia, but his father moved him to Missouri when he was about nine years old. He went West in 1824 with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and afterwards lived most of his life in the West as a trapper, mountain man, trailblaze


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