In The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth (New York, 1856), p. [203]., The Native American woman was taken captive and adopted by the Crows when she was about ten. After excelling as a warrior, she became a chief, and was known as Bíawacheeitchish, or Woman Chief. She married four women in her lodge. In his autobiography, James Pierson Beckwourth, calling her Pine Leaf or Bar-chee-am-pe, claims to have had a romantic relationship with her., Full-length portrait of the woman warrior astride a horse.
