Novel featuring James Beckwourth, an African American, who was a fur trader, Indian fighter, and adventurer in the early nineteenth-century American west.
Beckwourth was known far and wide as a runaway slave, a renegade, a horse thief, and a fearsome warrior who had taken over a hundred scalps, among other things. But the real James Beckwourth was even bigger than his mythic persona. Beckwourth was as wild and untamed as the land he loved and conquered. Fiercely proud and bitterly stubborn, he seemed to enjoy making enemies with his displays of harsh courage.