Beckwourth: experimenting a research

I'm planning to do something about a period in the past, I am thinking about 1800-1860.
Industrial revolution,
the changing in the society,
the final frontier,
the time of speeding up.

I found two persons of interest who coud lead me through my research

Peter Bajus,

and

James Beckwourth:

this is a little film sequence I found on You tube as visual stimulation.