Historic South Dakota People

South Dakota Ranch House by John C.H. Grabill, 1888.

South Dakota Ranch House by John C.H. Grabill, 1888.

 

Samuel Fields

Samuel Fields

American Horse – A Shrewd Sioux Chief

Chief Black Kettle – A Peaceful Leader

Seth Bullock – Finest Type of Frontiersman

Toussaint Charbonneau – A Disliked Trapper-Trader

Francois Auguste Chardon – Soldier and Fur Trader

Pierre Chouteau, Jr. – Merchant and Fur Trader

Joel Collins – Cowboy Outlaw

Benny and Stella Dickson – Bank Robbers

Samuel Fields – Shakespearian Orator of Deadwood

Wild Bill Hickok & The Dead Man’s Hand

John “Turkey Creek Jack” Johnson – Riding With the Earps

William Laidlaw – Most Able Trapper

Daniel Lamont – Fur Trader

Kitty Leroy – Lady Gambler & Gunfighter

Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick – Great Cowboy

Lucretia “Aunt Lou” Marchbanks – Greatest Cook in the Black Hills

Daniel Boone May – Protecting the Deadwood Stage

Owen McKenzie – Fur Trader

Vernon C. Miller – Involved in the Kansas City Massacre

Moses Embree “California Joe” Milner – Scouting the West

Sacagawea – Leading Lewis & Clark

Sioux Chief Spotted Elk

Con Stapleton – Deadwood Marshal

Charlie Storms – A Failed Gunfighter

Charlie Utter, Bill Hickok’s Best Pard

John Joshua “J.J.” Webb – Lawman Turned Outlaw

© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.

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