James Pierson Beckwourth, circa 1860, in Denver, Kansas Territory CHAPTER 25 Jim dusted off years of serenity from his creased trousers...

Each home consists of two rooms in this adobe dwelling of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, built bewteen 1000 and 1450 by the Native American...

"Three Fingers, Cheyenne" (1898) by Frank A. Rinehart From the New York Public Library CHAPTER 21 Swift Fish, Lots of Trees and Red...

Anti-slavery literature began to appear about 1820. Abolitionist press produced newspapers, periodicals, sermons, children's books,...

"Catching the Wild Horse" (1845) by George Caitlin From the New York Public Library CHAPTER 18 Morning Star strode through the village of...

"Crow Indians" (circa 1840-1843) by Karl Bodmer CHAPTER 17 Way up north of the Oregon Trail and Blackfoot country on that side of the...

Certificate of Freedom of Harriet Bolling (1851) in Petersburg, Virginia This certificate of renewal states that Harriet Bolling was...

"Buffalo Chase in Winter, Indians on Snowshoes" by George Caitlin (From the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.) CHAPTER...

FREE STATES/ SLAVE STATES By United_States_1837-01-1837-03.png:Made by User.Golbez CHAPTER 11 Jim and Estelle breathed in unison as they...

"Pawnee family", a woodgraving (circa 1899), in John Clark Ridpath's Universal History (From the New York Public Library) CHAPTER 9 In...

Steamers at St. Louis on the Mississippi (1875) (From the New York Public Library) CHAPTER 7 Jim was slipping into another world. It...

George Caitlin's "Buffalo hunt. Under white wolf skin" (1845) (From the New York Public Library) CHAPTER 5 The dark blessed and tightened...

CHAPTER 3 Ten barechested men on shore pulled a sixty-foot keelboat on the Fever River. A line passed through their hands to the bow...

James Pierson Beckwourth (1798-1866) About 62 years old Dedication JOURNEY TO HONOR is dedicated to my father’s parents, Joseph and Adina...