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Throughout his long and lusty life, James P. Beckwourth epitomized
much of the best and the worst of a fabulous breed, the mountain
men of the early West. Trapper, hunter, guide, horse thief, Indian
fighter, and Indian chief, he also took part in the Seminole and
Mexican wars and the California gold rush before he dictated his
memoirs to an itinerant newspaperman, Thomas D. Bonner. Beckwourth
was the only black mountain man to record his story; his
autobiography, first published in 1856, is a classic of its kind,
the western adventure story par excellence. But because it mixes
fact and fiction it has long been regarded with suspicion. This
edition reproduces the original 1856 printing, and adds notes and
an epilogue by Professor Delmont R. Oswald to assist the reader in
sifting Beckwourth's life from the legend Beckwourth preferred to
create.
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