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Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
Buffalo Bill
American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)
Kit Carson
American frontiersman and Union Army general (1809-1868)
Johnny Appleseed
American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)
Frederick Russell Burnham
father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil man; writer; rancher (1861–1947)
John Adair
American politician (1757–1840)
James Beckwourth
American mountain man (1798-1866)
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
American engineer (1826–1885)
Eliza Farnham
American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform
Frank Hopkins
American horseman
Frances Dana Barker Gage
American writer (1808-1884)
American pioneer
persons who migrated across the country to explore, trade, and establish permanent homes
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
American abolitionist and writer (1807-1834)
George Mathews
American politician (1739-1812)
Texas Jack Omohundro
American army scout, cowboy and actor (1846–1880)
John Filson
United States author, historian and surveyor
John Butler
Loyalist who led an irregular militia unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier in the American Revolutionary War
George Washington Bush
American pioneer
Charles Goodnight
American cattle rancher (1836-1929)
Anton Docher
American pioneer
Thomas S. Hinde
American minister and businessman
Laura Smith Haviland
American abolitionist and suffragette (1808-1898)
John Buchanan
American frontiersman (1759-1832)
Stephen Trigg
American pioneer and soldier from Virginia
Joseph Winston
American farmer and politician (1746–1815)
William Montgomery
American general and politician 1736-1816
Rufus Putnam
American military officer (1738-1824) who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War