Mural at Louis Market, Los Angeles, California by Chuy Vasquez
John “Grizzly” Adams – Bear Hunter
John Hicks Adams – Sheriff and U.S. Deputy Marshal
Cyrus Alexander – Trapper and California Pioneer
Burton Alvord – Lawman Turned Outlaw
Anglin Brothers – Escaping From Alcatraz
Captain Juan Bautista de Anza II – Spanish Explorer
Pete Aguereberry
Pete Aguereberry – Mining Death Valley
Cyrus Alexander – Trapper and California Pioneer
James Barton – Los Angeles Sheriff Killed in the Line of Duty
Roy Bean – The Law West of the Pecos
James Pierson Beckwourth – Explorer and Mountain Man
Bum Blockade – Stopping the Depression Refugees
Charles “Black Bart” Bowles – Poet Outlaw
Francis Branch – Trader & Pioneer
William F. “Alkali Bill” Brong & the Death Valley Chug Line
Edward “Ned” Bushyhead – Cherokee Lawman
Sebastiao Melendez Rodriguez Cermeno – Spanish Explorer
Chattel Hood to Freedom – Black Pioneers of California
The Chilean Crusade for El Dorado
William T. Coleman – Shipping to Borax
Fred Dodge – Undercover Detective
James Dayton – Death Valley Swamper
James C. Earp – Lesser Known Older Brother
Morgan Earp – Killed in Tombstone, Arizona
Virgil Earp – Upholding the Law of the West
Death Valley Scotty
Camillus Sidney Fly – Arizona Photographer and Lawman
Clark “Old Chieftain” Foss – Boisterous California Stage Driver
John C. Fremont – The Pathfinder
John Peter Gabriel – Lawman & Gunfighter
John Gantt – Soldier & Mountain Man
Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces – Franciscan Priest
Joseph Goff Gale – Pioneer & Politician
Henry Garfias – 1st Marshal of Phoenix
Sam Gay – The Sagebrush Sheriff
George “Baldy” Green – A Popular Stage Driver
John L. Hatcher – Frontiersman
John Coffee Hays – Soldier and Texas Ranger
George Hearst – Father of a Mining & Publishing Empire
Valentine “Rube” Herring – Trapper to County Officer
Dr. Thomas J. Hodges – California Outlaw
James B. Hume – California Lawman & Detective
Albert Johnson – Owner of Scotty’s Castle
John “Liver Eating” Johnson – Mountain Man and Lawman
The Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Mathew Kinkead – Colorado Trader to Wealthy Californian
Eusebio Francisco Kino – Jesuit Priest
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack – Modoc Warrior
Arthur Kunze – Founder of Greenwater
Buckskin Frank Leslie – Another Tombstone Rowdy
Harry Love – Leading the California Rangers
Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick – Great Cowboy
James “Tex” Lucas – Bank Robber & Car Thief
Lucky Luciano – Italian Crime Boss of New York
James Marshall – Discovering Gold in California
Bridget “Biddy” Mason – African American Entrepreneur
Mysterious Dave Mather – Lawman or Outlaw?
Moses Embree “California Joe” Milner – Scouting the West
Surrender of the Modoc Indians, 1873, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
The Modoc – Fighting in the Lava Beds
Henry “Hank” Monk – Famous Stage Driver of the Old West
George “Alfred” Monroe – Slave to Skilled “Whip”
Audie Murphy – America’s Greatest Hero
Edna Murray – The Kissing Bandit
Joaquin Murrieta – Patriot or Desperado?
George “Baby Face” Nelson – Bank Robber
U.S. Marshal Evett Nix – Bringing Down the Doolin-Dalton Gang
Charley Parkhurst – Tough Lady Stage Driver
Ferd Patterson – Living and Dying by the Gun
Sumner Pinkham – Dead at the Hands of a Gunfighter
Henry Plummer – Sheriff Meets a Noose
Delia Haskett Rawson – Carrying the U.S. Mail
Scarface Charley – Celebrated Modoc Warrior
Walter Scott, Better Known as Death Valley Scotty
Charles A. Shibell – Arizona Lawman
Bugsy Siegel and the Re-birth of Las Vegas
Charles Siringo – Cowboy Detective
Sontag Brothers – Outlaw Train Robbers
Francis “Borax” Marion Smith – The Borax King of Death Valley
Jedediah Smith – Blazing the Rockies
Levi Strauss – King of the Blue Jeans
John A. Sutter – Boom & Bust in California
Sutter’s Own Story- Discovery of Gold
“Dangerous Dan” Tucker – Lawman of New Mexico
Big Dave Updyke – Crooked Sheriff of Ada County, Idaho
Tiburcio Vasquez
Tiburcio Vasquez – California Desperado
Stephen Venard – Goldrush Lawman
Vigilante Committees of San Francisco
Vigilantes of California, Idaho, & Montana
Women on the Move: Overland Journeys to California
Christian “Chris” Brevoort Zabriskie
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.
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