People from American folklore

American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)

Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateering ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to

John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)

American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber

American frontiersman and politician (1786–1836)

Sacagawea ( or ; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May 1788 – December 20, 1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone or Hidatsa woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.

United States Navy admiral (1801–1870)

Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean

Dutch politician; director-general of New Netherland (1612-1672)

American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)

San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States

American frontiersman and Union Army general (1809-1868)

Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

American folk hero and lawman (1837–1876)

nineteenth-century American pioneer, soldier, smuggler, slave trader, and land speculator, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution

gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851–1887)

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just nine days before the death of her older sister Emma.

American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)

North American folklore character

first child born in the Americas to English parents (fl. 16. century)

thumb|Dragoon Mountains in Southeastern Arizona, where Cochise hid with his warriors Cochise ( ; Apache: or , ; later or , ; June 8, 1874) was the leader of the Chiricahui local group of the Chokonen and principal nantan of the Chokonen band of a Chiricahua Apache. A key war leader during the Apache Wars, he led an uprising that began in 1861 and persisted until a peace treaty was negotiated in 1872. Cochise County is named after him.

American Voodoo practitioner

folklore character

American meat packer (1766-1854)

American Old West character (1853–1895)

American outlaw, Confederate guerrilla, and train robber (1843-1915)

American explorer (1804-1881)

popularized potato chips

American outlaw (1862-1892)

Union Army general (1796–1878)

American mountain man (1798-1866)

American judge (1825–1903)

mountain man of the American Old West. (1824–1900)

American railroad engineer (1863–1900)

American Old West outlaw (1851-1878)

Major League Baseball player and manager (1857–1894)

Texas cattle rancher and gunfighter (1840-1887)

American outlaw

English military officer hired by the Pilgrims (1584-1656)

companion of Doc Holliday (1850-1940)

younger brother of Wyatt and Virgil Earp (1851-1882)

American patriot and soldier during the Revolutionary War

American midwife hanged after conviction for allegedly practicing witchcraft

camel driver for the US Camel Corps (1828–1902)

American pioneer (1815–1888)

archetypal Cornish and English hero and stock character

American explorer

Army soldier (1851–1937)

Texas ranger and politician

American writer. First to present Sacagawea as an important historical figure. Women's suffrage advocate.

American scout and poet (1847-1917)

American mountain man, pioneer of the Oregon Country, politician (1810–1875)

American rancher