Show JIM recollections ota ofa famous 0 breanne tho chief of an all in tribe b e cor av yew york eun sun SAN FRANCISCO sept 16 in plumas county there is 13 a fertile mountain valley in the heart odthe of the IN northern or thern sierra sierras where for some years beckwourth Beckw the famous trapper guide indian chief and fron ti ersman lived tho annals of au venture contain no moro more interesting figure than swarthy jim beckwourth Beckw the discoverers discover ery HI 1851 of tl this lis mountain ri pass the tife writer has met many persons army officers and civilians who knew beckwourth Beckw and haa has talked with gokl bold hunters whom this fearless guide led across the sierras in 1851 beckwourth Beckw was born in fredericksburg icks burg va in 1798 his father had bad been an all offices an in the revolution ab about ut 1805 tho the fam family 1 ily removed jn ved to blie missouri and settled twelve miles below st charles in a region still called settlement when only 19 years p old jim beckwourth Beckw be became the hunter fol col it rj expedition to treat with the sacs and foxes and work lead mines in the galena region it was not long before beck aou bourth rth joined geil gem Ash leya leys rocky mountain fur Culli company pany from IM 1817 until he started starred for california Califor nii in 1844 his life was a succession of haiT hairbreadth breadth escapes of fortunes made and lost and of indian battles he ile served under bent ilent and sublette Su bletto in the west and with gen jesup je sup during tho tile 17 seminole war in florida he ile even te became c anic fint counselor of the crow Natio nand finally their head lICAd chief leading thin in countI countless forays against it thelious the Sious Sioux and blacka feet age he aldaya protected the persons and properly property of whites while he lie was the ruler of the grows Crows his popularity with the in ho fro ruled with a rod of iron was due to ilia wonderful knowledge of indian nature and his unsurpassed hies filosi trooper instinct sHe was never so ba happy appy as when in the saddle faddle leading a war 00 ill arty party 11 by bv night r a u c ire e n c amp ments or to stampede their horses and dash away ngai agai ll 11 like a whirl whirlwind wAid alic ono plic of hc dozen or mor more 6 0 indian names nanie lie had mean meant t in english 1 glab enell enemy ay iy of horses Hors ses one of famous feats was accomplished about 1822 when lie w was as near the tile snake river trap 2001 plug aug he was pursue pursued dl by over india indians nsf and aud ran all day without I 1 food 0 or r water covering coverI covering Dg it is is believed not less tit than at I 1 93 95 mi miles 10 before io 10 reached ei cat camp op this beat ranka ranks in the tales of the tile wet west with bents f famous abnous ride rile twenty I 1 years later in ili 1830 while beckwourth Beckw as it in st louis and was still chief 01 of tile crows a foolish trapper told that tribe he had been killed they i at once surrounded fort cas cass with i thousands of mari warriors ors to take im mediate ven vengeance geati after much parley a truce of three months was a agreed breed upon until word could be bent in tn beckwourth Beckw to come and recco thi beleaguered ed fort which contained worth of goods A trapper 11 appen was paid ta to deliver the ines message sage to beckwourth Beckw noil and tho the crows encamped I 1 to await results the fur company paid beckwourth Beckw rth and anti all expenses to return at once i and he lie rodo rode with two COMP companions i the entire di distance stance in fifty days and awl I 1 s saved aved the fort from destruction after this he lie traded in ne nev i j mexico and in 1844 led all an eppedi j tion to california reaching los angeles in January 1844 he ile was one of the most active of tile revola re volu tion zionists ests of 1815 und cc cn castro ile being q leader of the thirteen cen american riflemen flemen ili who first joined castro he was lieutenant altot ot the subsequent corpa corps of which captured the pueblos of santa barbara andiman terey defeating atin Sut SLIt lers forces force when in 1847 war was declared in mexico Beckw beckwourth and his company of trappers numbering ICES leu than a dozen collected over 7 1800 horses in tho tire los angeles region annd ing ea eastward reached the arkansas in safety ho ilo dispatched dispatches from fort leaven worth to dianta fc and other point points on oil one occasion lie he rodo yi 3 miles wiles in fifteen day in ill 1848 lie returned to california hero here he lie helped to brin bring tu to ji tice tho tire perpetrators of I 1 alir lia heed reed murders near san miguel here a respectable english family and their Fer servants all wore were killed the ranch was twenty five miles from tho the nearest house and Beckw beckwourth waa was the person who discovered the deed not an hour bour after it was committed H ho 0 rod rodo 0 seventy two mile milca s t that hat night and collected a band of forty men inen ti to aluin twenty more were added the i i t day lay they separated and Beckw beckwourth with twenty ewt nty men m overto overtook ok tho the thurleen to f urLeen despert blocs waw had killed tho the family in in order to ret get 1000 worth of gold dust lust 11 div tho attack two or three of the tile inu adt aerts were ki ledina others ere emptor d tried by lynch law lav a aid pd bilot after this beckwourth Beckw blien 13 I miili r figure a at t the gold f the sierras from Hang town to shasta 1 pas va ra berrIer rat th r medium size strength and ho was ifor hll V kii vid descriptive powers in telling of his adventures he ile died jl is lonely on 1 cabin bi a years agan g hat of me wilder wil derne h s au ait adu ted kind 1 hearted frontier arnall less noble than 1 carson unworthy or illano 4 1 T f V i NOT 1 |