Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

male, deceased (1820)
Daniel Boone (October 22, 1734 - September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk...
John Jacob Niles

John Jacob Niles

male, deceased (1980)
John Jacob Niles (b. Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 1892; d. Lexington, Kentucky, March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer, and collector...

Abraham Wood

male
Abraham Wood was an English fur trader (specifically the deerskin trade) and explorer of colonial Virginia during the 17th century. His base of...
George Croghan

George Croghan

male, deceased (1782)
George Croghan (c. 1720 - August 31, 1782) was a prominent American colonist and early advocate of westward expansion. He was an experienced Indian...

John Lederer

male
John Lederer, was a nurse and an explorer of the Appalachian Mountains. Lederer was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1644, and studied medicine at the...
John Ehle

John Ehle

male, 83 years old
John Marsden Ehle, Jr. (born December 13, 1925) is an American writer known best for his fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American...
Franklin Graham

Franklin Graham

male, 57 years old
William Franklin Graham III, known publicly as Franklin Graham (born July 14, 1952), is an American Christian evangelist and missionary. The fourth...

Doug Elliott

male
Doug Elliott is a storyteller, herbalist and naturalist whose specialty is the American Appalachians. He is the author of several books featuring...

Charles F. Dowd

male, deceased (1904)
Charles F. Dowd (1825-1904) was a co-principal (with his wife Harriet M. Dowd) of the Temple Grove Ladies Seminary in Saratoga Springs, New York....
Christopher Camuto

Christopher Camuto

male
Christopher Camuto is a writer and outdoorsman whose work focuses primarily on the natural environment. He is the author of a nonfiction trilogy on...