- Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include the novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang", which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work "Desert Solitaire". Writer Larry McMurtry referred to Abbey as the "Thoreau of the American West". - Peter Skene Ogden
Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein or Skeen), (baptised 12 February, 1790 - September 27, 1854) was a fur trapper and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia the American West. During his many expeditions he explored parts of Oregon, Washington, Nevada, California, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. His birthdate is variously given as 1774, 1794, or 1790. He was the son of Chief Justice Isaac Ogden of Quebec. - John Ward
John Ward was a Black Seminole who served as a United States Army Indian Scout and received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Ward enlisted in the Army at Fort Duncan, Texas, and joined other Black Seminoles known as the "Seminole Negro Indian Scouts". On April 25 1875, he was serving as a Sergeant of the 24th Infantry Regiment by the Pecos River in Texas where, "[w]ith 3 other men, … - John McDonald
John McDonald (May 24, 1837 - January 30, 1917) was an American soldier and politician. Born in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, McDonald attended local schools. He immigrated to the United States and enlisted in the United States Army at Boston, Massachusetts in 1857. He joined his regiment in Arizona, and served in the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac throughout the American Civil War. After the war, McDonald was ordered to the West, … - Sheldon Jackson
Rev. Sheldon Jackson (1834-1909) was a Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States in the 19th century. He is particularly known for his missionary work in Alaska, where he was also a political leader. He was born in Mineville, New York in 1834. He graduated from Union College in 1855, and from the Presbyterian Church's Princeton Theological Seminary in 1858. He became an ordained Presbyterian minister and soon began his extensive missionary career. - Charles Marion Russell
Charles Marion Russell (1864, Oak Hill, Missouri - 1926, Great Falls, Montana), also known as C.M. Russell, was one of the great artists of the American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in addition to bronze sculptures. His mural entitled "Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flathead Indians" hangs in the state capitol building in Helena, Montana. - Caleb Greenwood
"Old" Caleb Greenwood was a Western U.S. fur trapper and trail guide. In 1844 he, along with Isaac Hitchcock, guided the influential Stephens-Townsend-Murphy emigrant party across the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Reputedly 80 years old at the time, on reaching Sutter's Fort he had completed the first overland wagon journey to California. Greenwood, returning east the following year with his two sons, pioneered a new route bypassing the Truckee River Canyon. - Rowdy
Rowdy (died March 29 1893) was a United States Army Indian scout and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Rowdy, a sergeant in Company A of the Indian Scouts, was involved in an engagement in Arizona on March 7 1890. He was awarded the Medal of Honor two months later, on May 15 1890, … - Harry Chandler
Harry Chandler was an American newspaper publisher and investor who became owner of the largest real estate empire in the U.S. Born in Landaff, New Hampshire, Chandler attended Dartmouth College. On a dare, he jumped into a vat of icewater during winter, which led to severe pneumonia. He withdrew from Dartmouth and moved to Los Angeles for his health. In L.A., while working in the fruit fields, … - Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. In 1879, Johnson served as a sergeant in Company D of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. From October 2 to October 5 of that year, at Milk River, Colorado, … - Benjamin Brown
Benjamin Brown was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. On May 11 1889, Brown was serving as a Sergeant in Company C of the 24th Infantry Regiment when his unit was involved in an engagement with robbers in Arizona. For his actions during the engagement, Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor a year later, on February 19 1890. - George Jordan
George Jordan was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Jordan joined the Army from Nashville, Tennessee, and by 1880 was serving as a Sergeant in Company K of the 9th Cavalry Regiment in New Mexico. - John Denny
John Denny was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Denny joined the Army from Elmira, New York, and by September 18 1879 was serving as a Sergeant in Company C of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. On that day, his unit participated in an engagement at Las Animas Canyon, New Mexico, and Denny "[r]emoved a wounded comrade, … - Emanuel Stance
Emanuel Stance was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. On May 20 1870, Stance was serving as a Sergeant in Company F of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. On that day, he was cited for "[g]allantry on scout after Indians" at Kickapoo Springs, Texas, an action for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor a month later, … - Clinton Greaves
Clinton Greaves was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Greaves joined the Army from Prince George's County, Maryland, and by January 24 1877 was serving as a Corporal in Company C of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. - Thomas Boyne
Thomas Boyne was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. In 1879, Boyne was serving as a Sergeant in Company C of the 9th Cavalry Regiment in New Mexico. He was cited for "[b]ravery in action" at the Mimbres Mountains on May 29 1879, and at the Cuchillo Negro River near Ojo Caliente on September 27 1879. - Isaiah Mays
Isaiah Mays was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Mays joined the Army from Columbus Barracks, Ohio, and by May 11 1889 was serving as a Corporal in Company B of the 24th Infantry Regiment. On that day, he was involved with an engagement with robbers in Arizona. - Brent Woods
Brent Woods was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Woods joined the Army in Louisville, Kentucky, and by August 19 1881 was serving as a sergeant in Company B of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. - Augustus Walley
Augustus Walley was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. On August 16 1881, Walley was serving as a private in Company I of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. On that day, Walley participated in an engagement in the Cuchillo Negro Mountains of New Mexico, … - Michael Wallis
Michael Wallis (b. 1945) is a historian of the Western United States from Missouri, United States. He has written 10 books, including the bestsellers "Route 66: The Mother Road", "The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West", and "Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd". He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times, and has also appeared in the movie Cars, as Sheriff. Wallis was interviewed By Rep. - Corbin Harney
Corbin Harney was an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people, the indigenous people whose ancestral homeland, Newe Sogobia (translation: "The People's Land"), includes part or all of five different states in the Western United States (Nevada, California, Utah, Idaho, and Montana). Harney was born at an unknown location in Newe Sogobia and his final home was in Tecopa, California. He died of cancer approximately 11:00 a.m. on July 10, 2007, … - Hunter Hancock
Hunter Hancock (1916 - August 4 2004) was a disc jockey regarded as the first in the Western United States to play rhythm and blues records on the radio, and among the first to broadcast rock and roll. He was born in Uvalde, Texas, and raised 90 miles away in San Antonio. After school, he took on many jobs, including singing in a vaudeville troupe and a stint at a Massachusetts burlesque club. He then entered radio, and was heard on a number of stations from 1943 to 1968. - John Hogan
John Hogan was a United States Representative from Missouri. Born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States in 1817 and settled in Baltimore. He was apprenticed to learn the shoemaker’s trade, received a limited schooling, became a licensed Methodist preacher before twenty years of age, and went West in 1826 and preached in the Illinois conference. He entered the general merchandise business in Madison, Illinois in 1831, … - Peter French
Peter French (April 301849 - December 261897) was a rancher in the western United States in the late 1800s. The community of Frenchglen, Oregon was partially named for him. - Pierre-Jean de Smet
Father Pierre-Jean DeSmet, also known as Pierre DeSmet and Peter DeSmet, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus, was a native Belgian who became the most trusted of the white men among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-1800s. He first came to America in 1821 to begin his novitiate at White Marsh, Maryland, a Jesuit estate near Baltimore. Later he was moved to Florissant, Missouri, where he was ordained on Sept. 23, 1827. - Molly Gloss
Molly Gloss (born 20 November, 1944) is an American writer currently best known for science fiction works. Her novel "Wild Life" won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for work that explores or expands notions of gender. She has also received a 1996 Whiting Award as well as the PEN Center West Fiction Prize. Another notable novel is "The Dazzle of Day", which concerns Quakers on a multigenerational starship. She has taken classes from Ursula K. Le Guin, … - Craig Bolerjack
Craig Bolerjack joined CBS Sports in 1998 as a college football and NFL play-by-play announcer. This is his ninth year calling play-by-play for CBS Sports' NCAA Men's Basketball Championship coverage. He called CBS Sports' HDTV coverage of the NFL in 1998 and also had hosted CBS Sports' SPORTSDESK wrap-around studio show and AT THE HALF, CBS Sports' college basketball halftime studio show. - Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 - January 14 1882) was a photographer prominent for his work on subjects in the American Civil War and the Western United States. O'Sullivan was born in either Ireland or New York City. As a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady. When the Civil War began in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army and, over the next year, fought in Beaufort, Port Royal, Fort Walker, and Fort Pulaski. - William McBryar
William McBryar was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. McBryar joined the Army from New York City and by March 7 1890 was serving as a Sergeant in Company K of the 10th Cavalry Regiment. On that day, he participated in an engagement in Arizona where he "[d]istinguished himself for coolness, … - Robert Lougheed
Robert Lougheed 1901 -1982 was an artist who has specialized in images of the American West. He was born in and raised on a farm in Massey, Ontario, Canada. He became an illustrator for mail-order catalogues and for the "Toronto Star", but studied in his spare time at the Ontario College of Art and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal. - Thomas Shaw
Thomas Shaw was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Shaw joined the Army from Pike County, Missouri, and by August 12 1881 was serving as a Sergeant in Company K of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. On that day he participated in an engagement at Carrizo Canyon in New Mexico. - John Batterson Stetson
John Batterson Stetson (May 5, 1830 - February 18, 1906) was a U.S. hat manufacturer; the stetson hat was named for him. Born in Orange, New Jersey, Stetson learned hatmaking and traveled to the West in the 1860s to improve his health. He returned to Philadelphia and began manufacturing hats there suited to the needs of the Western cowboy. These hats, known as Stetsons, soon became the popular headgear of the West. The John B. Stetson Company, formed in 1865, became, … - Ernest Ingersoll
Ernest Ingersoll (March 13, 1852-November 13, 1946) was a renowned American naturalist, writer and explorer. A native of Monroe, Michigan, Ingersoll studied for a time at Oberlin College and afterward at Harvard University, where he was a pupil of Louis Agassiz. He went West as naturalist in the Hayden surveys of 1874 and 1877, and did much work with the United States Fish Commission. He became widely known as a writer of specialized magazine articles, … - Isaac Payne
Isaac Payne was a Black Seminole who served as a United States Army Indian Scout and received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Payne and other Black Seminoles enlisted in the Army and became known as the "Seminole Negro Indian Scouts". On April 25 1875, he was serving as a trumpeter by the Pecos River in Texas where, "[w]ith 3 other men, … - Pompey Factor
Pompey Factor was a Black Seminole who served as a United States Army Indian Scout and received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Factor and other Black Seminoles joined the Army as "Seminole Negro Indian Scouts". On April 25 1875, he was serving as a private by the Pecos River in Texas where, "[w]ith 3 other men, … - Henry Wills
Henry Wills was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Wills joined the Army from his birth state of Pennsylvania and served as a Private in Company C of the 8th Cavalry Regiment. He was cited for providing "[s]ervices against hostile Indians" near Fort Selden, New Mexico, from July 8 to July 11 1873, … - Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie Schneider (born 1968 in Cuxhaven) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider is known for using expired Polaroid instant film material to achieve an effect of washed-out colors and random artifacts from the deprecation of the chemicals. Combined with her preferred choice of location, the American West (especially Twentynine Palms, California, which served as location and title to one of her books), … - Moses Williams
Moses Williams was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. By August 16 1881, Williams was serving as a First Sergeant in Company I of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. On that day he participated in an engagement in the foothills of the Cuchillo Negro Mountains in New Mexico. - Earl Krugel
Earl Leslie Krugel (November 24, 1942 - November 4, 2005) was the West Coast coordinator of the Jewish Defense League (JDL). At one time, Krugel was a dental assistant in the San Fernando Valley. While the Jewish Defense League was founded by Meir Kahane in New York in 1968, West Coast activities were spearheaded by Irv Rubin and his followers, Earl and Barry Krugel. The FBI contends that Irv Rubin planned the 1985 bombing-murder of Orange County Arab-American leader, … - Adam Paine
Adam Paine was a Black Seminole who served as a United States Army Indian Scout and received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Paine enlisted in the Army at Fort Duncan, Texas, and joined other Black Seminoles known as the "Seminole Negro Indian Scouts". From September 26 to September 27 1874, he was serving as a private in Texas at Canyon Blanco, a tributary of the Red River, …
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