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Born 1796? • Virginia
Died April 30, 1865 • Texas
Founder Santa Fe Trail
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner
American historian
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Carson, Kit
Kit Carson
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Robert Campbell
Canadian trader and explorer
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Martin E. Johnson
American adventurer and photographer
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Nathaniel P. Langford
American explorer and conservationist
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Thomas Walker
American physician
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
president of United States
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok
American frontiersman
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, detail of a portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer; in the City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
Henry Morton Stanley
British American explorer
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill
American showman
Richard E. Byrd stands on a ship deck in heavy fur clothing and a leather cap, holding a sundial compass during an Antarctic expedition.
Richard E. Byrd
American explorer
Frémont, John C.
John C. Frémont
American explorer, military officer, and politician
William Clark
William Clark
American explorer
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer
Essential part of the expedition
York, enslaved man
American explorer
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Christopher McCandless
American adventurer
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp
American frontiersman
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist

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