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Jim Baker: The Redheaded ShoshoniBy Leighton L. Baker
Published: [Tavares, FL] : [Golden Lifestyles\' Books], [1993]. FIRST EDITION.
183 pp. Softcover. Text is complete, clean and unmarked. Not Ex-Lib. SCARCE title.

Jim Baker(1818–1898), was a frontiersman, trapper, hunter, fur trader, explorer, army scout, interpreter, soldier, territorial militia officer, rancher, mine owner, toll keeper and mountain man and a friend ofJim BridgerandKit Carsonand one of GeneralJohn C. Fremont\'s favorite scouts. He was one of the most colorful figures of the old frontier West.

The decline of the fur trade, in the early 1840s, drove many the trappers to quit, but Jim Baker stayed on. Little is known of his movements after 1844 but in 1855, he was hired as chief scout for GeneralWilliam S. Harney, ofFort Laramie, and was with the U.S. Army sent to pacify the Mormons in Utah. In 1873 Baker built a cabin with a guard tower near the Colorado Placers of theLittle Snake Riverin Wyoming, where he raised livestock until his death in 1898. His cabin is currently, on display at the Little Snake River Museum in Savery, Wyoming. The grave of Jim Baker is marked with a stone at Baker Cemetery nearSavery,Carbon County, Wyoming.

Baker was married twenty times, each time to an Indian woman, one of whom was the daughter of aCherokeechief; he had a number of children. Another one of Baker\'s wives was a daughter of Shoshone chief,Washakie

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