Other / Unknown · Grand Junction, Colorado · 1812

CO-1812ID case-e100334fbbFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Jim Beckwourth reports seeing and shooting a large, dark-colored animal he initially mistook for a buffalo in 1812.

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Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: 1812
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-e100334fbb

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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Image 2 of The daily sentinel (Grand Junction, Colo.), June 29, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-06-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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