Description:

Pathfinders poster (detail).

James Beckwourth was a daring frontiersman and Indian fighter who became a Chief of the Crow Indians, Army scout, gold prospector and fur trapper. His most valuable contribution, however, was the discovery of a pass through the Sierra Nevadas in 1850.

Contributed by John Judkyn Memorial.

Date: 1800s

Copyright: The American Museum in Britain, Bath

Object ID:74.179.12