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People in THE WEST - Red Cloud
As a warrior and a statesman, Red Cloud's success in confrontations with the United States government marked him as one of the most important Lakota leaders of the nineteenth century.
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People in THE WEST - Nelson A. Miles
A career of volunteer infantryman to the office of commander of the army.
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People in THE WEST - James Marshall
James Marshall is linked forever to the story of the California gold rush as the man who set the whole world heading westward with his discovery of gold along the American River in northern California.
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People in THE WEST - Joshua A. Norton
Joshua Abraham Norton was one of the most picturesque figures in California history.
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People in THE WEST - Fred Eaton
As a real estate speculator and former Los Angeles Mayor, Fred Eaton was the mastermind who acquired the Owens River for Los Angeles.
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People in THE WEST - Sitting Bull
A Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains..
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People in THE WEST - John M. Chivington
The hero of Glorietta Pass and the butcher of Sand Creek, John M. Chivington stands out as one of the most controversial figures in the history of the American West.
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People in THE WEST - Joseph Meek
Joe Meek was a witness to the West's transformation from a wilderness for mountain men into a region where social conformity was increasingly the rule.
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People in THE WEST - Popé
A religious leader from San Juan Pueblo in present-day New Mexico, Popé organized and led the most successful Indian uprising in the history of the American West.
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People in THE WEST - James K. Polk
As the expansionist eleventh President of the United States, James K. Polk was perhaps more responsible than any other single person for setting the boundaries of what came to be the American West.
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People in THE WEST - Mariano Vallejo
In a life that spanned the colonial, Mexican and American eras in California, Mariano Vallejo saw himself steadily marginalized in his own native land, despite his efforts to stay at the forefront of change.
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People in THE WEST - Benjamin Singleton
A leader in the Great Exodus that brought thousands of African Americans west from the post-Reconstruction South.
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People in THE WEST - Looking Glass
Looking Glass was the war chief who, along with Chief Joseph, directed the 1877 Nez Percé retreat...
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People in THE WEST - Oliver Otis Howard
Throughout his long military career, Oliver Otis Howard gained victory by the force of his own moral convictions as often as by force of arms.
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People in THE WEST - Juan Seguin
Juan Seguin knew both the adulation of a Texas hero and the anguish of a tejano forced to live among his former enemies.
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People in THE WEST - Marshall Field
Founder of the department store chain that still bears his name.
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As a warrior and a statesman, Red Cloud's success in confrontations with the United States government marked him as one of the most important Lakota leaders of the nineteenth century.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4r...
People in THE WEST - Nelson A. Miles
A career of volunteer infantryman to the office of commander of the army.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4m...
People in THE WEST - James Marshall
James Marshall is linked forever to the story of the California gold rush as the man who set the whole world heading westward with his discovery of gold along the American River in northern California.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4m...
People in THE WEST - Joshua A. Norton
Joshua Abraham Norton was one of the most picturesque figures in California history.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4n...
People in THE WEST - Fred Eaton
As a real estate speculator and former Los Angeles Mayor, Fred Eaton was the mastermind who acquired the Owens River for Los Angeles.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4e...
People in THE WEST - Sitting Bull
A Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains..
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w41...
People in THE WEST - John M. Chivington
The hero of Glorietta Pass and the butcher of Sand Creek, John M. Chivington stands out as one of the most controversial figures in the history of the American West.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4c...
People in THE WEST - Joseph Meek
Joe Meek was a witness to the West's transformation from a wilderness for mountain men into a region where social conformity was increasingly the rule.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4m...
People in THE WEST - Popé
A religious leader from San Juan Pueblo in present-day New Mexico, Popé organized and led the most successful Indian uprising in the history of the American West.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4p...
People in THE WEST - James K. Polk
As the expansionist eleventh President of the United States, James K. Polk was perhaps more responsible than any other single person for setting the boundaries of what came to be the American West.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4p...
People in THE WEST - Mariano Vallejo
In a life that spanned the colonial, Mexican and American eras in California, Mariano Vallejo saw himself steadily marginalized in his own native land, despite his efforts to stay at the forefront of change.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4v...
People in THE WEST - Benjamin Singleton
A leader in the Great Exodus that brought thousands of African Americans west from the post-Reconstruction South.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w41...
People in THE WEST - Looking Glass
Looking Glass was the war chief who, along with Chief Joseph, directed the 1877 Nez Percé retreat...
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4l...
People in THE WEST - Oliver Otis Howard
Throughout his long military career, Oliver Otis Howard gained victory by the force of his own moral convictions as often as by force of arms.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4h...
People in THE WEST - Juan Seguin
Juan Seguin knew both the adulation of a Texas hero and the anguish of a tejano forced to live among his former enemies.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4s...
People in THE WEST - Marshall Field
Founder of the department store chain that still bears his name.
pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w40...
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