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Born 1796? • Virginia
Died April 30, 1865 • Texas
Founder Santa Fe Trail
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John Wesley Powell
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Carson, Kit
Kit Carson
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Robert Campbell
Canadian trader and explorer
Martin E. Johnson
American adventurer and photographer
Thomas Walker
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Nathaniel P. Langford
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Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
president of United States
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok
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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 explorer
William Cody, 1916.
Buffalo Bill
American showman
Richard E. Byrd.
Richard E. Byrd
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Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner
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Frémont, John C.
John C. Frémont
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William Clark
William Clark
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Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
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Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
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Christopher McCandless
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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp
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Robert Edwin Peary.
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