Mosby’s Rangers, 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, Civil War
Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party
William Ashley and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Nathaniel Bacon – First American Rebel
Ann Bailey
Mad Ann Bailey – Scout & Indian Fighter
William Becknell – Father of the Santa Fe Trail
James Pierson Beckwourth – Explorer and Mountain Man
William Becknell – Father of the Santa Fe Trail
Alexander K. Branch – Frontiersman
Jim Bridger – Quintessential Guide of the Rocky Mountains
Benjamin Brown – Honorable Buffalo Soldier
Frank Canton – Cowboy, Outlaw, and Lawman
William Clark – Co-Leader of the Corps of Discovery
John Colter – Fearless Mountain Man
David “Davy” Crockett – Frontier Hero
Joseph Doyle – Colorado Trader and Politician
William Henry Harrison – The Hero of Tippecanoe
John L. Hatcher – Frontiersman
Samuel Houston – Texas President
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson – The Sage of Monticello
John Paul Jones – Greatest Revolutionary Naval Commander
Charles Keemle – Journalist & Fur Trader
Robert E. Lee – Celebrated General of the South
The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
James Madison – 4th President of the United States
Isaiah Mays – Honorable Buffalo Soldier
Joseph Lafayette Meek – Trapper to Politician
David Dawson Mitchell – Fur Trader & Soldier
Audie Murphy – America’s Greatest Hero
John Baker “Texas Jack” Omohundro – Cowboy Performer
Joshua Pilcher – Trader and Indian Agent
Pocahontas
Captain John Smith – Settling the First Colony
Zachary Taylor – Distinguished General & President
Elizabeth Van Lew – Union Spy in the Civil War
“Texas Jack” Vermillion – Old West Gunfighter
George Washington – Father of our Country
“Bigfoot” Wallace – A Texas Folk Hero
“Uncle Dick” Wootton – American Frontiersman
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated January 2023.
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