James Beckwourth

James Beckwourth
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Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages : 124
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1575058928
ISBN-13 : 9781575058924
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis James Beckwourth by : Ann S. Manheimer

A biography of the African American pioneer.

Jim Beckwourth

Jim Beckwourth
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 292
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0806115556
ISBN-13 : 9780806115559
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Jim Beckwourth by : Elinor Wilson

Portrays the life and adventures of the freedman, frontiersman, and fur trader who became a Crow warrior

James Beckwourth

James Beckwourth
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Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Total Pages : 128
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015028407198
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis James Beckwourth by : Sean Dolan

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

James Beckwourth

James Beckwourth
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 120
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0756510007
ISBN-13 : 9780756510008
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis James Beckwourth by : Susan R. Gregson

A biography of the trapper who served as a messenger and guide to the U.S. Army and was accepted as an honorary member of several Native American tribes.

Oxford Reading Tree: Stages 15-16: TreeTops True Stories: Tomahawk Beckwourth

Oxford Reading Tree: Stages 15-16: TreeTops True Stories: Tomahawk Beckwourth
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0199196605
ISBN-13 : 9780199196609
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Oxford Reading Tree: Stages 15-16: TreeTops True Stories: Tomahawk Beckwourth by : Michael Cox

TreeTops True Stories are exciting, motivating non-fiction books which will broaden your pupils' reading experience. They are part of a structured reading programme for juniors. In the plethora of imagery surrounding the American Wild West, we are used to the heroes of cowboy films and the stuff of legends like Dances with Wolves being portrayed exclusively as white colonisers. Here is a story of a real character who was half African-American, being born to a slave mother and white land-owning father. James Tomahawk Beckwourth has rightly been claimed as a black hero in America, and yet the first Hollywood movie about him saw him played by a white actor! He led a colourful and adventure-packed life, and this story is retold in the first person with photos and beautiful artwork of the flora and fauna of untamed America. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of invaluable teaching notes.

James Beckwourth

James Beckwourth
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Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1403441995
ISBN-13 : 9781403441997
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis James Beckwourth by : Rick Burke

James Beckwourth was a blacksmith, pioneer, mountain man, scout, and war chief in the American frontier. Can you imagine what his life must have been like? What was he like as a person? Read this book in the American Lives series to get to know James Beck

Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn

Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 372
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0806117230
ISBN-13 : 9780806117232
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn by : Janet Lecompte

Pueblo, Hardscrabble, and Greenhorn were among the very first white settlements in Colorado. In their time they were the most westerly settlements in American territory, and they attracted a lively and varied population of mavericks from more civilized parts of the world-from what became New Mexico to the south and from as far east as England. The inhabitants of these little walled towns thrived on the rigor and freedom of frontier life. Many were ex-trappers full already of frontier expertise. Others were enthusiastic neophytes happy to escape problems back home. They sought Mexican wives in Taos or Santa Fe or allied themselves with the native Indian tribes, or both. The fur trade and the illegal liquor trade with the Indians were at first the mainstays of their economy. As time went on they extended their activities to farming illegally on the land owned by the Indians and trading their crops and other trade articles. They enjoyed themselves hunting, gambling, trading, and with their women, freely mixing Spanish, Indian, and Anglo-American cultures in a community without laws or bigotry. This idyll was brought to a close by the Mexican War and the lure of the California Gold Rush of 1849. The expectation of a railroad on the Arkansas brought many of the settlers back, only to be scared away again by the massacre of Pueblo by the Utes in 1854 of which Mrs. Lecompte has reconstructed a very complete record. When the gold seekers rushed to Pikes Peak in 1858 and stayed to establish farms and towns, some of the pioneers of the early days returned with them, and shared their skills and knowledge to make possible the permanent settlements that resulted. Mrs. Lecompte has documented the history of the region from diaries, letters, and the reports of such distinguished passers-by as J. C. Fremont and Francis Parkman. The result is a complete and compelling account of a neglected part of American frontier life. It is illustrated with more than fifty photographs and contemporary drawings.

The Medicine Calf

The Medicine Calf
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Publisher : W. W. Norton
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0393333434
ISBN-13 : 9780393333435
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Medicine Calf by : Bill Hotchkiss