The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth, mountaineer, scout, and pioneer, and Chief of the Crow nation of Indians

An autobiography narrated to Thomas D. Bonner by James P. Beckwourth, a mulatto former slave who became a fur trapper and explorer of the American West and an adopted member of the Crow Indians. This first American edition (537 pages) was published in 1856 by Harper Brothers in New Yor