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28 famous people found
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Calamity Jane
American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller
1852 - 1903 -
Kit CARSON
American frontiersman
1809 - 1868 -
Wilbur WRIGHT
American inventor of the airplane
1867 - 1912 -
Orville WRIGHT
American inventor of the airplane
1871 - 1948 -
Amelia EARHART
American aviation pioneer and author
1897 - 1939 -
Eugene J. BULLARD
horse trainer, vaudeville performer, boxer, infantryman, aviator, musician, nightclub owner
1895 - 1961 -
Wild Bill HICKOK
Folk hero of the American Old West
1837 - 1876 -
John Charles FREMONT
American military officer, math instructor, explorer, author, U.S. Senator, and politician
1813 - 1890 -
Hiram BINGHAM III
Amercian academic, explorer and politician
1875 - 1956 -
Joseph R. WALKER
American mountain man and experienced scout
1798 - 1876 -
Charles WILKES
American naval officer and explorer
1798 - 1877 -
Charles Francis COLCORD
American cattle rancher, U.S. Marshal, Chief of Police, businessman, and pioneer of the Old West
1859 - 1934 -
Dudley WOLFE
American sailboat racer and mountaineer, he disappeared in the disastrous 1939 attempt to climb K2
1896 - 1939 -
Stanley Yale Beach
American aviation pioneer
1877 - 1955 -
Myron Avery
American lawyer, hiker and explorer
1899 - 1952 -
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
American geologist
1828 - 1887 -
Deering DAVIS
American designer and author who was one of the first American aviators to serve in Italy in World War I
1897 - 1965 -
Norman PRINCE
American aviator, leading founder of France's Lafayette Escadrille
1887 - 1916 -
Ed SCHIEFFELIN
Indian scout and prospector who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, which led to the founding of Tombstone, Arizona
1847 - 1897 -
Don LORENZO HUBBELL
American trader instrumental in promoting the sale of Navajo art, sheriff of Apache County, Arizona
1853 - 1930