1899 newspaper with illustrated report of Frontiersman JIM BAKER friend of Kit Carson & Jim Bridger - inv # 7P-313
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Elbert County Banner (ELIZABETH, Colorado) dated Apr 14, 1899. This original newspaper contains a prominent inside page heading: "JIM BAKER'S RESOLVE" in a fight he had with grizzly bears. Jim Baker was a frontiersman in the wild west, a friend of Jim Bridger and Kit Carson and one of General John C. Fremont's favorite scouts
Elizabeth is a statutory town which is the most populous municipality in Elbert County, Colorado. Elizabeth, initially called Russellville, was originally a saw mill camp. The town was later named after a family member of John Evans, a territorial governor. The town was incorporated in October 1890 and has had a post office since 1882.
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. He was a friend of Jim Bridger and Kit Carson and one of General John C. Fremont's favorite scouts.
The decline of the fur trade in the early 1840s drove many the trappers to quit, but Baker remained in the business. Little is known of his movements after 1844, but in 1855 he was hired as chief scout for General William S. Harney of Fort Laramie, and was sent with the U.S. Army to pacify the Mormons in Utah. In 1873 Baker built a cabin with a guard tower near the Colorado Placers of the Little Snake River in 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. Baker's grave is marked with a stone at Baker Cemetery near Savery, Carbon County, Wyoming.
Baker was married several times, each time to a Native American woman, one of whom (Marina) was a daughter of the Shoshone chief Washakie. His other two wives were Shoshone sisters raised by a French family: Mary (Meteetsee) and Eliza (Yanatse). He had a total of 14 children, but only 6 survived to accompany him to Savery, Wy in 1873. They were: William, Joseph (born to Marina) Mary, Isabelle, Madeline (born to Mary) and Jennie (born to Eliza). All three wives were no longer with him in 1873, having either died or been sent away. He never remarried. Daughter Mary married John Runnels, a miner and died at Hahn's Peak, CO in 1880. Son William homesteaded where the town of Dixon, WY now stands and died in 1893. Son Joseph and daughters Madeline, Isabelle and Jennie were living with Baker at Savery, WY in 1880 according to Census records. All three girls married later on and lived full lives. Madeline married Frank Adams. Isabelle married N.B. Kinnear and Jennie married August Rischke. Joseph later moved to the Shoshone Reservation at Lander, WY where he lived out his life. Some of Madeline's descendants are still living in the Little Snake River Valley today. Other known Baker descendants live in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington state.
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