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If you will not kill me, I will live with you.
Said to Native Americans

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The restless, youthful mind, that wearies with the monotony of peaceful everyday existence, and aspires after a career of wild adventure and thrilling romance, will find by my experience that such a life is by no means one of comfort, and that the excitement which it affords is very dearly purchased by the opportunities lost of gaining far more profitable wisdom.

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Whatever is their fortune, good or bad, the leader is the person on whom the praise or blame falls.

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You are all fools and old women; come with me, if any of you are brave enough, and I will show you how to fight.

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James Beckwourth

James Beckwourth
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Born: April 26, 1798
Died: October 29, 1866 (aged 68)
Bio: James Pierson Beckwourth, born James Beckwith and generally known as, Jim Beckwourth was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. A mulatto born into slavery in Virginia, he was freed by his father and apprenticed to a blacksmith; later he moved to the American West.

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