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Author DeMund, Tom.

Title From slave to superstar of the Wild West : the awesome story of Jim Beckwourth / Tom DeMund.

Publication Info. Sausalito, Calif. : Legends of the West Pub. Co., [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 978.02 Demund Fro 2007        Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo
Description 154 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-146) and index.
Summary Presents a comprehensive biography of former slave and western pioneer Jim Beckwourth, whose white father freed him when he was nine and sent him to school; and follows his journeys out west.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo
Subject Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866 -- Juvenile literature.
Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866.
African American pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American pioneers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Pioneers.
African American trappers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American trappers.
Trappers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Trappers.
Crow Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Crow Indians -- Kings and rulers.
Crow Indians.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life.
West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
West United States.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780978690403
0978690400