People of The West

Learn more about the men and women featured in The West:

Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836)
William Bent (1809-1869)
Big Foot (Unknown-1890)
Black Kettle (Unknown-1868)
Samuel Brannan (1819-1889)
John Brown (1800-1859)
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917)
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1490-c.1557)
Kit Carson (1809-1868)
John M. Chivington (1821-1894)
"Chief Joseph" Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (1840-1904)
William Clark (1770-1838)
George Custer (1839-1876)
Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
Wovoka (c.1856-1932)
Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898)
Leland Stanford (1824-1893)
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888)
Junipero Serra (1713-1784)
Sam Houston (1793-1863)
William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865)
Alice Fletcher (1838-1923)
Popé
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932)
Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909)
William Mulholland (1855-1935)
Marshall Field (1834-1906)
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808-1890)
Julia Louisa Lovejoy (1812-1882)
Looking Glass Allalimya Takanin (c.1832-1877)
Juan Seguin (1806-1890)
Juan Cortina (1824-1892)
Joseph Lafayette Meek (1810-1875)
Joseph Farwell Glidden (1813-1906)
John Gibbon (c.1827-1896)
John Augustus Sutter (1803-1880)
John Doyle Lee (1812-1877)
James Knox Polk (1795-1849)
James Wilson Marshall (1810-1885)
James Henry Lane (1814-1866)
Red Cloud Makhpiya-Luta (1822-1909)
Joshua Abraham Norton (c.1818-1880)
William "Big Bill" Haywood (1869-1928)
Gall Pizi (c.1840-1894)
Fred Eaton (1856-1934)
Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900)
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510-1554)
Emmeline Wells (1828-1921)
Denis Kearney (1847-1907)
David King Udall (1851-1938) Ida Hunt Udall (1858-1915)
Crazy Horse Tashunca-uitco (1849-1877)
Sitting Bull Tatanka-Iyotanka (1831-1890)
Charles Crocker (1822-1888)
Brigham Young (1801-1877)
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809-1892)
Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876)
Joseph Smith (1805-1844)
Alfred Howe Terry (1827-1890)
Charles Goodnight (1836-1929)
William Gilpin (1813-1894)
Sacagawea (c. 1790-1812 or 1884)
Nelson Appleton Miles (1839-1925)
Marcus A. Reno (1834-1889)
Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
George Crook (1828-1890)
William K. Vanderbilt (1849-1920)
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847) And Marcus Whitman (1802-1847)
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