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Description:: Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photomechanical print of Beckwourth Trail, with Beckwourth Pass.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Santa Susana Pass is a low mountain pass in the Simi Hills of Southern California, connecting San Fernando Valley to Simi Valley. It was used by Native American tribes for around 8,000 years. Use by Europeans started with the Portola Expedition (1769-1770), by Franciscans to travel from the San Fernando Mission the San Buenaventura, and by San Fernando rancheros after 1834 secularization. A wagon trail was created, and, in 1917, a road was built.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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