Map of Beckwourth Pass, Chilcoot-Vinton (California), (copy photo 1930-1989)

Title: Map of Beckwourth Pass, Chilcoot-Vinton (California), (copy photo 1930-1989)
Alternative title: Prints and negatives of Beckwourth trading post, Beckwourth Pass monument, and map.
Date Created: [1930-1989]
Date: 1930/1989
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: 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.
Photomechanical print of a map of Beckwourth Pass showing the location of the pass, Lake Tahoe, and Beckwourth Peak.
Caption: Illustration captions: "Jim Beckwourth's California"; "Shield of Medicine Calf, Chief of the Crows"; To Marysville, Sacramento and Gold Mines; "Middle Fork of the Feather River"; "Big Grizzly Creek"; Hallelujah Junction"; "Beckwourth Peak 7255 ft."; "Lake Tahoe"; "Little Last Chance Cr."