Photomechanical print of Beckwourth Trail, with Beckwourth Pass. Beckwourth Trail, that goes through Beckwourth Pass, was used from 1850 to 1855 by immigrants and during the Gold Rush. After that, the railroad was used for travel to California. James Beckwourth, of mixed-race, and was born into slavery in Virginia. His father was the plantation master, and his mother was an enslaved African American. Beckwourth became a trapper and explorer in California, where he lived with the Crow Nation for several years and married Crow women. He guided migrants to California and discovered the “Beckwourth Pass” through the mountains between Reno, Nevada and Portola, California. Illustration caption: Beckwourth's Pass, California
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uclalsc_1889_b01_f08_002.tif ark:/21198/z1h71zrs
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Beckwourth Trail (Calif. and Nev.) Mountain passes
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