Studio portrait of a Native American woman, reported to be a wife of James P. Beckwourth. Her visible hair is cut shoulder-length. She wears a printed cotton top or dress and a neckerchief. 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. Photo label: Indian wife of James Beckwourth. v 176. [copy print:] Photo by Roy Whison. Advertising Photographers. 3607 Sunset Boulevard. Los Angeles 26, Calif. Phone 66501205.
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uclalsc_1889_b01_f07_003a.tif ark:/21198/z1rr3g7c
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Fur traders’ spouses Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866
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