african american trappers

Focuses on the experiences of African Americans as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.

Examines the life and career of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, and trader.

Presents a comprehensive biography of former slave and western pioneer Jim Beckwourth, whose white father freed him when he was nine and sent him to school; and follows his journeys out west.

Presents a biography of James Beckwourth, slave, scout, mountain man, Indian chief, and storyteller, and provides information on his childhood, his life as a trapper, and his sense of adventure that lead to westward expansion.

Focuses on the experiences of African Americans as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.

Examines the life and career of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, and trader.

Biography of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, Indian chief, trader, gold seeker, innkeeper, and rancher who discovered a pass in the Sierra Nevadas which bears his name.