| |  | David Thompson (April 30, 1770 - February 10, 1857), was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as... |  | Simon Fraser (1776-18 August 1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia.... |  | Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764 - March 11, 1820) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer. MacKenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer... |  | Jim or James Bridger (March, 1804 - July 17, 1881) was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the... |  | Jedediah Strong Smith (born January 6, 1799 - presumed date of death May 27, 1831) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader and explorer of the Rocky... |  | John Kirk Townsend (October 10, 1809 - February 6, 1851) was an American naturalist, ornithologist and collector. Townsend was born in Philadelphia... |  | Andrew Dean Nystrom is an author, journalist, editor, photographer and travel planning consultant specializing in responsible and sustainable... |  | John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. (November 20, 1851-December 23, 1928) was an American botanist and educator, brother of Stanley Coulter, born at Ningpo,... |  | Per Axel Rydberg was a botanist. He was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden, but emigrated to the United States in 1882. He took his BS and MS de... |  | Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 - February 20, 1871) was an Irish-Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian... | |
