Colorado miners by Detroit Photographic, about 1900.
John David Albert – Frontiersman
Charles Allen and His Ring of Painted Ladies
Louis Ambroise – French Trapper
Susan “Doc Susy” Anderson – Frontier Physician
Charles Autobees – Trapper, Trader, and Mountain Man
Susan “Doc Susy” Anderson – Frontier Physician
Arapaho Chief , 1898
Arapaho – Great Buffalo Hunters of the Plains
Baby Doe and The Tabor Triangle
Jules Beni – Corruption and Violence in Old Julesburg
Bent Brothers – Trading on the Santa Fe Trail
George Bent – Cheyenne-American Soldier & Leader
Chief Black Kettle – A Peaceful Leader
Dutch Henry Borne – Biggest Horse Thief in the American West
William Milton Breckenridge – Lawman, Surveyor & Author
Kit Carson – Legend of the Southwest
My Friend, Kit Carson by a Santa Fe Trail Driver
Cheyenne – Warriors of the Great Plains
Buffalo Bill Cody, 1872
Buffalo Bill Cody – Trapper, Trader, and American Frontiersman
William Craig – Frontiersman and Trapper
Pearl de Vere – Soiled Dove of Cripple Creek
Joseph Doyle – Colorado Trader and Politician
Earl Dunraven and the Estes Park Land Grab
Felipe Nerio Espinosa – Leader of the Bloody Espinosas
Jack Gilbert Graham – The Fatal Flight of UA 629
John W. Gunnison – Surveying the Great Northwest
John L. Hatcher – Frontiersman
Valentine “Rube” Herring – Trapper to County Officer
Captain James Hobbs – Roaming the Southwest
Doc Holliday – Colorado’s Deadly Dentist
Neil Howie – Lawman and Vigilante
Mathew Kinkead – Colorado Trader to Wealthy Californian
John M. Larn – Vigilante, Outlaw, Lawman
William Sidney “Cap” Light – Texas Marshal & Soapy Smith Man
“Cock-Eyed” Frank Loving – Dueling Gunfighter
“Rowdy Joe” Lowe – Saloon Gunfighter
Bat Masterson – King of the Gun Players
James “Jim” Masterson – Dodge City Marshal
Mysterious Dave Mather – Lawman or Outlaw?
William E. Mathewson – The Other Buffalo Bill
George McJunkin – Black Cowboy & Amateur Archaeologist
The Navajo Nation – Largest in the U.S.
John Baker “Texas Jack” Omohundro – Cowboy Performer
Alfred Packer
Alfred G. Packer – Colorado Cannibal
Zebulon Pike – Hard Luck Soldier & Explorer
Jean “John” Baptiste Richard – Trader and Entrepreneur
Luke Short – A Dandy Gunfighter
George S. Simpson – Colorado Trader
Charles Siringo – Cowboy Detective
John Simpson Smith – Superior Frontiersman
Soapy Smith – Bunko Man of the Old West
Thomas “Bear River” Smith – Marshalling Abilene
Ceran St. Vrain – Successful Trader & Businessman
Con Stapleton – Deadwood Marshal
Tom Tate Tobin – Exploring & Scouting in New Mexico & Colorado
The Ute Tribe – Roaming the Rockies
Charlie Utter, Bill Hickok’s Best Pard
Pierre Louis Vasquez – Trader & Mountain Man
Charles Waggoner – Colorado Robin Hood
C.J. Walker – Blazing a Path in Business for Women
John Joshua “J.J.” Webb – Lawman Turned Outlaw
Harvey Whitehill – New Mexico Miner & Sheriff
“Old Bill” Williams – Mountain Man and Explorer
Cathay Williams – Female Buffalo Soldier
“Uncle Dick” Wootton – American Frontiersman
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.
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