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Born 1770 or 1780 • Fort Pitt • Pennsylvania
Died 1823 • North Dakota
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok
American frontiersman
William Clark
William Clark
American explorer
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
American frontiersman
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp
American frontiersman
Carson, Kit
Kit Carson
American frontiersman
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
American religious leader
Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass in The Revenant stands in rugged, tattered clothing with a stick, snowy mountains in the background.
Hugh Glass
American frontiersman
George Rogers Clark, portrait by J.W. Jarvis; in the Filson Club collection, Louisville, Ky.
George Rogers Clark
American military leader and explorer
Crockett, Davy
Davy Crockett
American frontiersman and politician
Heroism of Miss Elizabeth Zane
Betty Zane
American frontier heroine
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Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
American pioneer and author
Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane
American frontierswoman
Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger
American frontiersman
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Kate Elder
American plainswoman
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
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Charles E. Duryea
American inventor
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Eazy-E
American musician
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John Coulter
American botanist
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Michael Clarke
American musician