Inspired by all he achieved, the James P. Beckwourth Mountain Club formed to encourage Black people to live his legacy by exploring the outdoors.
in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in 1850. The pass is named for him, as is a nearby city in California.Black people to live his legacy by exploring the outdoors.Rocky Mountain National Park
and all kinds of places for us to hike and enjoy,” Brinson reminisces. “We found that there were a tremendous number of Black people in the Denver metro area who really had a desire for themselves to get into the outdoors and to get children into the outdoors.”“Every weekend, we had hikes and outings like going horseback riding and whitewater rafting. In the winter, skiing and outdoor skating and outdoor sports,” Brinson says.
Although Brinson says the club no longer exists, a passionate community of Beckwourth admirers continues to study and promote his accomplishments. When the movie"", containing a fictionalized version of Beckwourth’s character, was released in 2021, the community was dismayed. “They took a number of the characters who were prominent in the West, and they put them all in one film. James Beckwourth was actually born in the late 1700s, and there were other people in that film who were born in the ,” Brinson says, referencing
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