Adventurer
18 famous people found
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BUFFALO BILL
American soldier, bison hunter and showman
1846 - 1917 -
Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836 -
Kit CARSON
American frontiersman
1809 - 1868 -
Wyatt EARP
American deputy sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, best known for his part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1848 - 1929 -
Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820 -
Vance RODRIGUEZ
American hiker whose body was found on July 23, 2018 in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida
1976 - 2018 -
Wild Bill HICKOK
Folk hero of the American Old West
1837 - 1876 -
Edward BUNKER
American pioneer, Mormon, and community founder of Bunkerville, Nevada
1822 - 1901 -
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 -
Joe Redington
American dog musher and kennel owner, who is best known as the "Father of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race"
1917 - 1999 -
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 -
John KENDRICK
American sea captain, both during the American Revolutionary War and the exploration and maritime fur trading of the Pacific Northwest
1740 - 1794 -
Alfred PACKER
American prospector who was accused of cannibalism during the winter of 1873-1874
1842 - 1907 -
Josiah HARLAN
American adventurer, best known for travelling to Afghanistan and Punjab with the intention of making himself a king
1799 - 1871 -
James John FLOYD
Pioneer of the Midwestern United States around the Louisville, Kentucky
1750 - 1783 -
William WALKER
American lawyer, journalist and adventurer
1824 - 1860