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Jim Baker (frontiersman)

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communicator and spoke a number of Native American languages. He was known for his ability to guide, even where there were no evident trails. He had a good knowledge of the geography of the west, guiding others around rivers, lakes, canyons, and other geographical features. Based upon his reputation,
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Baker had sisters Eliza, Elizabeth, and Adelia and a brother John. He learned to hunt for game with a gun and fish as a child. He and his siblings had little education. When he was seventeen, his father sent him to his grandfather at St. Louis for schooling, but he was sent home when it was clear he
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His wife Meeteetse (Little Traveler), who Baker called Mary, was a Shoshone woman. They had ten children: Thomas, Buck, Jim, Mary, Isabel, Madeline, Nancy Kate, Liza, and Elsie. With his wife Eliza Yanetse, they had a daughter Jennie. Eliza had twins in 1856, but only one of them survived, and was
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weapon, the magazine exploded, which injured his face and blew his right thumb off its hand. His lips, tongue, chin, and teeth were lacerated. He was also injured in the chest and his right lung. The injury occurred along Cherry Creek, about 20 miles from present-day Denver, where he was taken and
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Baker fell in love with Flying Fawn, a Sioux woman and daughter of Long Lance. They were about to be married when Flash of Fire, her cousin, prepared to shoot an arrow at Baker out of jealousy. Long Lance killed Flash of Fire, saving Baker's life. It is not known if Baker and Flying Fawn were
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His younger brother John, called "Beaver John" on the frontier, was also a trapper, hunter, and scout. He hunted and trapped with his brother Jim, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and Jack Robinson. His brother married a Shoshone woman and established a cattle ranch near Henry's Fork in Wyoming.
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He guided an Indian agent and separately guided Colonel Wesley Merritt following the massacre. As European American gold prospectors encroached on Oglala Lakota’s land at French Creek in the Badlands, tensions grew about who had rights to the land. Baker served under General
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Next to Jim Bridger, he was the most intrepid, skillful, and accomplished plainsman and mountaineer in all that region. He was a generous, noble-hearted specimen of the trapper type, who would peril his life for a friend at any time, or divide with him his last morsel of
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It became increasingly difficult to make a living trapping and hunting furs. Beaver had been fairly well trapped out by the 1840s. In addition, there was shift in fashion away from fur and to silk hats, so there was not much of a demand for beaver hats.
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Jim Baker was known for his skills as a marksman, archer, horseman, tracker, hunter, and lariat thrower. When hunting with a group of people, Baker generally took the lead and was the fastest rider of the men. He was also a competent
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Baker was a guide and interpreter between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean for 34 years. In 1845, he helped herd 4,000 wild horses from Mexican land in what is now Southern California. In 1847, Baker was in the
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Baker continued to hunt and trap in the Henry's Fork area independent of a fur company. He was often with Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, his brother John Baker, and others. They got along well with the
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along the Green River south to Salt Lake City. As Mormons moved into the area, they established towns. Shoshone, Utes, Mormons, mountain men, and new immigrants vied for land and resources.
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and Battle Creek, near what is now the border between Wyoming and Colorado. Baker hunted near Fraeb's camp on August 21, 1841. Twenty three trappers were attacked by 500
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While he was a trapper, he developed expertise as a guide, leader, marksman, and interpreter with Native Americans. He operated a ferry and trading post along the
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Daniel Chessman Oakes as a guide. Horses and mules has been stolen by Southern Arapahoe. In retaliation, Baker and others raided Little Raven and his band.
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married Native American woman. Baker was adopted into the Shoshone tribe and given the name "Red-Haired Shoshone" in 1847. He was engaged in conflicts with
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and in 1840 returned home to Illinois and St. Louis after his contract expired. He then signed up for another several years with the fur company.
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on July 3, 1859. The area became known as Baker's Crossing, and he established several businesses there. He raised cattle, operated a stone coal (
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for 18 months, for which he received $ 465 (equivalent to $ 13,305 in 2023). On May 15, 1838, he left St. Louis by boat and traveled up the
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on the Denver Boulder Wagon Road, and a store operated by his two wives. His customers were European American settlers and Native Americans.
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named James C. Baker. On July 3, 1859, Baker and his family settled at a place known as Baker's Crossing, west of Denver along Clear Creek).
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He led a railroad survey party to Salt Lake in 1872. In 1873, Baker left Colorado and bought a ranch in the Little Snake River Valley near
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people sometimes stole their collection of furs that they collected over a summer. He became known for his skills as a frontiersman:
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in Wyoming, where he raised livestock until his death in 1898. His cabin is currently on display at the Little Snake River Museum in
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Jim Baker was married three or more times, perhaps with as many as six wives, including women from the Shoshone, Snake,
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on May 22, 1839. With missionaries and 75 men, Baker was on an eight-day expedition that traveled through lands of the
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in the area. By that time, none of his wives were with him and there were only six children who settled with him:
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on the Denver Boulder Wagon Road, and a store operated by two of his wives. In 1873, Baker built a cabin with a
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Baker hunted with Baker and Carson into the fall of 1852. They traveled through what are now the states of
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Baker continued to live out his life at his cattle ranch and cabin. On May 15, 1898, Baker died at the
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in 1879, Jim Baker scouted for the Wyoming cavalry as they followed the Utes responsible for the attack
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scene at which trappers and mountain men sold their furs and hides and replenished their supplies.
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He had at least three Native American wives and fourteen children. He homesteaded on what is now
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area, assuming the clothing and lifestyle of the Native Americans. They lived near present-day
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was killed, Baker organized the trappers against the Native Americans in a multiple-day fight.
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Athearn, Frederic J.; United States. Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office (1976).
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headed for California in May 1841. It was the first wagon train to travel overland on the
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had no interest in education. Interested in living a life on the frontier, he went to the
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Joseph lived with Baker in 1880 and moved to the Shoshone Reservation at Lander, Wyoming
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married. It was also said that Baker saved a Sioux woman from starvation in the 1850s.
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chief in 1876. Following the Meeker Massacre, the United States Cavalry pursued the
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It was also said that he first worked for the American Fur Company in May 22, 1839.
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Baker was first married to Marina, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Shoshone chief
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William homesteaded where the town of Dixon, Wyoming now stands and died in 1893.
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In 1917, the Baker Cabin was removed from Savery and taken to Frontier Park in
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and married a Snake woman. (Snake people was a collective name given to the
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as a guide to track the Utes. Fourteen soldiers were killed at a battle at
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Mary married John Runnels, a miner and died at Hahn's Peak, CO in 1880.
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Settlers of the American West: The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers
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Snodgrass states that Fraeb and his party were found along the
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Baker operated at least one trading post and ferry stop on the
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frontiersman, trapper, hunter, fur trader, army scout, rancher
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Elliott, Donald R. (1999). Doris L. (Salmen) Elliott (ed.).
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Jennie lived with Baker in 1880 and married August Rischke.
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Isabelle lived with Baker in 1880 and married N.B. Kinnear.
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Madeline lived with Baker in 1880 and married Frank Adams.
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is located at Savery. He is said to have also lived near
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and his troops in a column against the Mormons and to
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responsible for the attack. Baker was hired by Major
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Native American lands west of the Mississippi River
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Index

James Baker (disambiguation)

Belleville
St. Clair County, Illinois
Savery
Carbon County, Wyoming
Savery
Carbon County, Wyoming
American Fur Company
Jim Bridger
Kit Carson
William S. Harney
Albert S. Johnston
George Custer
Washakie
Jim Bridger
Kit Carson
John C. Frémont
Arapaho
Cheyenne
Sioux
Henry Fraeb
Green River
Mormon
Utah War
Meeker Massacre
Battle of the Rosebud
Big Horn County, Montana
Clear Creek
Denver

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