Category

19th-century American explorers

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.

Henry Morton Stanley

British journalist and explorer (1841–1904)

Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)

Meriwether Lewis

American explorer (1774-1809)

John C. Frémont

American politician, explorer and military officer (1813–1890)

American scout and frontierswoman

American frontiersman and Union Army general (1809-1868)

naval officer and explorer from the United States (1798-1877)

Paul du Chaillu

French-American anthropologist, zoologist and traveler

American fur trapper and frontiersman

John Lloyd Stephens

American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805–1852)

Nathaniel Palmer

American explorer (1799–1877)

Frederick Russell Burnham

father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil man; writer; rancher (1861–1947)

Benjamin Morrell

American explorer (1795–1839)

Charles Francis Hall

American arctic explorer (1821–1871)

Isaac Israel Hayes

United States explorer and physician (1832-1881)

William Healey Dall

American malacologist, palaeontologist and explorer (1845 – 1927)

American explorer and journalist (1845–1924)

Adolphus Greely

American army officer and polar explorer (1844–1935)

American explorer (1804-1881)

mountain man, explorer

Elisha Kent Kane

American explorer and military medical officer (1820–1857)

James Beckwourth

American mountain man (1798-1866)

Benjamin Bonneville

Union Army general (1796–1878)

Edward Herbert Thompson

American mesoamericanist (1857–1935)

William Henry Holmes

American academic, painter and illustrator (1846-1933)

American politician (1819-1900)

Joseph Nicollet

French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician (1786–1843)

Stephen Harriman Long

American explorer

American explorer (1858-1934)

William John McGee

American geologist & anthropologist (1853-1912)

American explorer

Robert Abram Bartlett

Newfoundland-American explorer

Henry Wetherbee Henshaw

American ornithologist (1850-1930)

John Strong Newberry

American geologist, physician, explorer, and author (1822–1892)

James Willard Schultz

(1859-1947) American historian

Charles Chaillé-Long

American explorer (1842–1917)

American sailor and seal hunter

Franklin Leonard Pope

American engineer (1840-1895)

John Russell Bartlett

American historian and linguist (1805–1886)

Arthur Donaldson Smith

American explorer and scientific collector (1866-1939)

Frank G. Carpenter

American photographer (1855–1924)

Henry Hurd Rusby

American botanist, pharmacist and explorer (1855-1940)

American botanist and geologist (1797-1861)

William Louis Abbott

American medical doctor, explorer, ornithologist and field naturalist (1860-1936)

J. Lawrence Smith

American chemist, mineralogist, and student of meteorites (1818-1883)

Sara Plummer Lemmon

American botanist (1836-1923)

Matilda Coxe Stevenson

ethnologist (1849-1915)

William Temple Hornaday

American conservationist and zoologist (1854–1937)

Ranald MacDonald

American English teacher (1824-1894)

Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth

American explorer and inventor (1802-1856)

William Lewis Herndon

American explorer (1813–1857)

American explorer (1869–1950)

Henry D. Washburn

Union Army general, lawyer, politician (1832-1871)

William Bradford

American painter known for his marines (1823-1892)

Jeremiah N. Reynolds

American explorer

Henry Tureman Allen

(1859-1930) United States Army general

Angelo Heilprin

American scientist and explorer (1853-1907)

William Sublette

American mountain man (1799–1845)

Charles Fletcher Lummis

American historian, photographer, and activist (1859–1928)