People in the Theater District of New York City by Thomas O’Halloran, 1974.
Susan B. Anthony – Political Activist
John Jacob Astor & the American Fur Company
Francis Branch – Trader & Pioneer
John Butterfield – Expanding the Routes in the West
Al Capone – Leading the Chicago Outfit
Frederick Douglass appealed to President Lincoln and his cabinet to enlist African Americans.
Frederick Douglass – From Slavery to Renowned Activist
General Thomas Ewing, Jr. – Fighting For Kansas
Clark “Old Chieftain” Foss – Boisterous California Stage Driver
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
Ulysses S. Grant – Civil War Hero & 18th President
Alexander Hamilton – Founding Father & Political Philosopher
Henry Hudson – Northeast Explorer
James B. Hume – California Lawman & Detective
La Cosa Nostra – American Mafia
Typhoid Mary Mallon
Typhoid Mary Mallon – Spreading the Fever
Bat Masterson – King of the Gun Players
William E. Mathewson – The Other Buffalo Bill
Edward P. McCabe – Nicodemus Colonizer & State Auditor
Henry “Hank” Monk – Famous Stage Driver of the Old West
Giuseppe “The Clutch Hand” Morello – Leading the Morello Crime Family
Murder, Inc. – Part of the Italian-American Mafia
John Wesley Powell – Exploring the Grand Canyon
Porter Rockwell – Destroying Angel of Mormondom
Rough Riding Theodore Roosevelt
Mobster Dutch Schultz & His Hidden Treasure
Bugsy Siegel
Jedediah Smith – Blazing the Rockies
Thomas “Bear River” Smith – Marshalling Abilene
Wells Spicer – Tombstone Judge
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Working For Women’s Equality
Giovanni “Johnny” Torrio – Italian-American Mobster
Harriet Tubman – Moses of the Underground Railroad
Big Dave Updyke – Crooked Sheriff of Ada County, Idaho
Sarah Rosetta Wakeman – Fighting in the Civil War
Mary Edwards Walker about 1867.
Mary E. Walker – Brave Surgeon of the Civil War
William Wheeler – U.S. Deputy Marshal in Montana
Frank Wolcott – Enforcer in the Johnson County War
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated April 2024.
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