Kentucky mountaineers by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1930.
Daniel Boone
Roy Bean – The Law West of the Pecos
Daniel Boone – The Kentucky Pioneer
James Bowie – Dying at the Alamo
Elijah S. Briant – School Teacher Turned Lawman
Sheppard Busby – Marshal Hanged
Kit Carson – Legend of the Southwest
William Clark – Co-Leader of the Corps of Discovery
John Colter – Fearless Mountain Man
James C. Earp – Lesser Known Older Brother
Virgil Earp – Upholding the Law of the West
Johnny Fry – First Rider of the Pony Express
John Gantt – Soldier & Mountain Man
Simon Kenton – Frontiersman and Soldier
Mathew Kinkead – Colorado Trader to Wealthy Californian
Abraham Lincoln – Standing as a Hero
Oliver Loving – Pioneer Cowboy
Susan Magoffin – Recording the Santa Fe Trail
Moses Embree “California Joe” Milner – Scouting the West
David Dawson Mitchell – Fur Trader & Soldier
U.S. Marshal Evett Nix – Bringing Down the Doolin-Dalton Gang
Junius “June” Peak – Soldier & Texas Ranger
Joshua Pilcher – Trader and Indian Agent
John William Poe – Hunting Billy the Kid
John Simpson Smith – Superior Frontiersman
William Sublette – Explorer, Trapper, & Mountain Man
Zachary Taylor – Distinguished General & President
Mary E. Walker – Brave Surgeon of the Civil War
Ezekiel “Zeke” Williams – Trapper, Trader & Frontiersman
Frank Wolcott – Enforcer in the Johnson County War
“Uncle Dick” Wootton – American Frontiersman
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.
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