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James Beckwourth


 

James Pierson Beckwourth (1798-1866?) (a.k.a. Jim Beckwourth, James P. Beckwith) was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1798 to Sir Jennings Beckwith, a descendent of Irish and English nobility, and an African-American mulatto woman about whom little is known.

Further reading

  • Carl Sifakis, The Encyclopedia of American Crime, Facts of File Inc., 1982