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JAMES PIERSON BECKWOURTH
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
May 20, 201637 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (XIV & FINAL))
James Pierson Beckwourth, circa 1860, in Denver, Kansas Territory CHAPTER 25 Jim dusted off years of serenity from his creased trousers...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
May 12, 201630 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (XIII)
Each home consists of two rooms in this adobe dwelling of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, built bewteen 1000 and 1450 by the Native American...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
May 3, 201651 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (XII)
"Three Fingers, Cheyenne" (1898) by Frank A. Rinehart From the New York Public Library CHAPTER 21 Swift Fish, Lots of Trees and Red...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Apr 22, 201610 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (XI)
Anti-slavery literature began to appear about 1820. Abolitionist press produced newspapers, periodicals, sermons, children's books,...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Apr 15, 201626 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (X)
"Catching the Wild Horse" (1845) by George Caitlin From the New York Public Library CHAPTER 18 Morning Star strode through the village of...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Apr 8, 201615 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (IX)
"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...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Mar 25, 201632 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (VIII)
Certificate of Freedom of Harriet Bolling (1851) in Petersburg, Virginia This certificate of renewal states that Harriet Bolling was...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Mar 18, 201639 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (VII)
"Buffalo Chase in Winter, Indians on Snowshoes" by George Caitlin (From the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.) CHAPTER...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Mar 11, 201641 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (VI)
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...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Mar 3, 201627 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (V)
"Pawnee family", a woodgraving (circa 1899), in John Clark Ridpath's Universal History (From the New York Public Library) CHAPTER 9 In...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Feb 25, 201620 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (IV)
Steamers at St. Louis on the Mississippi (1875) (From the New York Public Library) CHAPTER 7 Jim was slipping into another world. It...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Feb 18, 201619 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (III)
George Caitlin's "Buffalo hunt. Under white wolf skin" (1845) (From the New York Public Library) CHAPTER 5 The dark blessed and tightened...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Feb 12, 201644 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR (II)
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...
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@CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
Feb 6, 201628 min read
JOURNEY TO HONOR
James Pierson Beckwourth (1798-1866) About 62 years old Dedication JOURNEY TO HONOR is dedicated to my father’s parents, Joseph and Adina...
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