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Born c.1766 • Virginia
Died c.1831 • Martins Ferry • Ohio

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Wild Bill Hickok
American frontiersman
Joseph Campbell.
Joseph Campbell
American author
William Clark
William Clark
American explorer
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
American frontiersman
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp
American frontiersman
Carson, Kit
Kit Carson
American frontiersman
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
American religious leader
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Hugh Glass
American frontiersman
George Rogers Clark, portrait by J.W. Jarvis; in the Filson Club collection, Louisville, Ky.
George Rogers Clark
American military leader and explorer
Crockett, Davy
Davy Crockett
American frontiersman and politician
Nancy Hart holding British soldiers at gunpoint during the American Revolutionary War, 1778.
Nancy Hart
American Revolution heroine
Duston, Hannah Emerson
Hannah Emerson Duston
American colonial heroine
Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
American pioneer and author
Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane
American frontierswoman
Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger
American frontiersman
Darragh, Lydia Barrington
Lydia Barrington Darragh
American war heroine
Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington
American Revolutionary War heroine
Margaret Corbin
American heroine
Mike Fink
American frontiersman