Image / Trading post cabin of James P. Beckwourth, Portola, 1930-1989

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Title: Trading post cabin of James P. Beckwourth, Portola, 1930-1989
Alternative Title: Prints and negatives of Beckwourth trading post, Beckwourth Pass monument, and map.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1930-1989]
1930/1989
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Photomechanical print of the trading post cabin of James P. Beckwourth, built circa 1851-1856.
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: After the Marysville disaster, Beckwourth build a trading post that still stands on Highway 70
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b01_f08_001.tif
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Subject: Log cabins
Trading posts
Jim Beckwourth Museum
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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