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Hall of Great Westerners, the Glossary

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The Hall of Great Westerners was established by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1958.^[1]

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Amadeo Pietro Giannini, also known as Amadeo Peter Giannini or A. P. Giannini (May 6, 1870 – June 3, 1949) was an American banker who founded the Bank of Italy, which eventually became Bank of America.

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Anne Burnett Tandy

Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy (Burnett, formerly Waggoner, formerly Hall, formerly Windfohr; October 15, 1900 – January 1, 1980) was an American heiress, rancher, horse breeder, philanthropist and art collector from Fort Worth, Texas.

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Anne Windfohr Marion

Anne Windfohr Marion (born Anne Valliant Burnett Hall; November 10, 1938 – February 11, 2020) was an American heiress, rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector from Fort Worth, Texas.

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Anthony W. Ivins

Anthony Woodward Ivins (September 16, 1852 – September 23, 1934) was an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and was a member of the church's First Presidency from 1921 until his death.

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Arthur A. Denny

Arthur Armstrong Denny (June 20, 1822 – January 9, 1899) was an American politician and businessman.

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Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964.

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Bartlett Richards

Bartlett Richards (January 6, 1862 – September 5, 1911) was a Cattle Baron and Banker who owned or fenced in vast acreage in Wyoming and Nebraska.

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Bass Reeves

Bass Reeves (July 1838 – January 12, 1910) was a runaway slave, gunfighter, farmer, scout, tracker, railroad agent and deputy U.S. Marshal.

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Bill Tilghman

William Matthew Tilghman Jr. (July 4, 1854 – November 1, 1924) was a career lawman, gunfighter, and politician in Kansas and Oklahoma during the late 19th century.

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Billy McGinty (cowboy)

William M. McGinty (January 1, 1871 – May 21, 1961) was an Oklahoman cowboy.

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Bose Ikard

Bose Ikard (1843 – January 4, 1929) was an African-American cowboy who participated in the pioneering cattle drives on what became known as the Goodnight–Loving Trail, after the American Civil War and through 1869.

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Brigham Young

Brigham Young (June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician.

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Buffalo Bill

William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman.

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Burton C. Mossman

Burton C. Mossman (April 30, 1867 – September 5, 1956) was an American lawman and cattleman in the final years of the Old West.

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Charles "Buffalo" Jones

Charles Jesse Jones, known as "Buffalo Jones" (January 31, 1844 – October 1, 1919), was an American frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist.

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Charles Badger Clark

Charles Badger Clark (January 1, 1883 – September 26, 1957) was an American cowboy poet, Marsha Trimble, 'Who is Badger Clark?', in True West Magazine, 08/25/2009 and the first poet laureate of South Dakota.

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Charles Boettcher

Charles Boettcher (1852-July 1948) was a successful businessman in Colorado in the hardware, mining, cement and sugar beet businesses.

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Charles Francis Colcord

Charles Francis Colcord (August 18, 1859 – December 10, 1934) was a cattle rancher, U.S. Marshal, chief of police, businessman, and pioneer of the Old West.

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Charles Goodnight

Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929), also known as Charlie Goodnight, was a rancher in the American West.

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Charles M. Bair

Charles M. Bair (1857–1943) was an early railroading businessman who also became one of the largest sheep ranchers in the United States.

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Charles Marion Russell

Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West.

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Chief Joseph

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (or hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography; March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century.

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Clifford Hansen

Clifford Peter Hansen (October 16, 1912October 20, 2009) was an American politician from the state of Wyoming.

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Collis Potter Huntington

Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist and railway magnate.

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Conrad Kohrs

Conrad Kohrs, born Carsten Conrad Kohrs (August 5, 1835 – 23 July 1920) was a Montana cattle rancher (cattle baron) and politician.

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Cyrus K. Holliday

Colonel Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (April 3, 1826 – March 29, 1900) was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the township of Topeka, Kansas, in the mid 19th century; and was Adjutant General of Kansas during the American Civil War.

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Daniel Waggoner

Daniel Waggoner (July 7, 1828 – September 5, 1902) was an early American settler and rancher in Texas.

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Dolph Briscoe

Dolph Briscoe Jr. (April 23, 1923 – June 27, 2010) was an American rancher and businessman from Uvalde, Texas, who was the 41st governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Edward Borein

Edward Borein (1872–1945) was an American etcher and painter from California.

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Edward Creighton

Edward Charles Creighton (August 31, 1820 – November 5, 1874) was a prominent pioneer businessman in early Omaha, Nebraska.

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Edward Fitzgerald Beale

Edward Fitzgerald Beale (February 4, 1822 – April 22, 1893) was a national figure in the 19th-century United States.

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Edward K. Gaylord

Edward King Gaylord (March 5, 1873 – May 30, 1974), often referred to as E.K. Gaylord, was the owner and publisher of The Daily Oklahoman newspaper (now The Oklahoman), as well as a radio and television entrepreneur.

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Esther Hobart Morris

Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902) was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States.

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Eugene Manlove Rhodes (January 19, 1869 – June 27, 1934) was an American writer, nicknamed the "cowboy chronicler".

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Eusebio Kino

Eusebio Francisco Kino, SJ (Eusebio Francesco Chini, Eusebio Francisco Kino; 10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711), often referred to as Father Kino, was an Italian Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer, mathematician and astronomer born in the Bishopric of Trent, Holy Roman Empire.

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Francis E. Warren

Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming.

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Frank Bird Linderman

Frank Bird Linderman (September 25, 1869 – May 12, 1938) was a Montana writer, politician, Native American ally and ethnographer.

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Frank Eaton

Frank Boardman "Pistol Pete" Eaton (October 26, 1860 – April 8, 1958) was a scout, sheriff, and cowboy.

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Frank North

Frank Joshua North (10 March 1840 – 15 March 1885) was an American military officer and interpreter for the United States Army, and also a politician.

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Frank R. Gooding

Frank Robert Gooding (September 16, 1859June 24, 1928) was a Republican United States Senator and the seventh governor of Idaho.

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Frederic Remington

Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art.

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Frederick Jackson Turner

Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then Harvard University.

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Gene Autry

Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades, beginning in the early 1930s.

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George Hearst

George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty.

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George Lane (politician)

George Lane (6 March 1856 – 24 September 1925) was an American-born Canadian politician and rancher and known as one of the Big Four who helped found the Calgary Stampede in 1912.

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George McJunkin

George McJunkin (c. 1856–1922) was an African American cowboy, amateur archaeologist and historian.

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George Ward Holdrege

George Ward Holdrege (March 26, 1847 - September 14, 1926) was an American railroad officer and cattle rancher with large land holdings in western Nebraska.

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Granville Stuart

Granville Stuart (August 27, 1834 – October 2, 1918) was an American pioneer, gold prospector, businessman, civic leader, vigilante, author, cattleman and diplomat who played a prominent role in the early history of Montana Territory and the state of Montana.

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Grenville M. Dodge

Grenville Mellen Dodge (April 12, 1831 – January 3, 1916) was a Union Army officer on the frontier and a pioneering figure in military intelligence during the Civil War, who served as Ulysses S. Grant's intelligence chief in the Western Theater.

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Hall of Great Western Performers

The Hall of Great Western Performers (sometimes called the Western Performers Hall of Fame) is a hall of fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hall of Great Westerners and hall of Great Western Performers are 1955 establishments in Oklahoma, awards established in 1955, cowboy halls of fame, culture of Oklahoma City, culture of the Western United States, halls of fame in Oklahoma, lists of sports awards and national Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

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Harry Darby

Harry Darby (January 23, 1895January 17, 1987) was an American politician from Kansas.

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Henry Bellmon

Henry Louis Bellmon (September 3, 1921 – September 29, 2009) was an American Republican politician from the U.S. State of Oklahoma.

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Henry Hooker

Henry Clay Hooker (January 10, 1828 – December 5, 1907) was a prominent and wealthy rancher during the American Old West who formed the first and what became the largest American ranch in Arizona Territory.

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Henry Miller (rancher)

Henry Miller (July 21, 1827 – October 14, 1916) was a German-American rancher known as the "Cattle King of California" who at one point in the late 19th century was one of the largest land-owners in the United States.

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Hiram F. Smith

Hiram F. "Okanogan" Smith (c. 1829 – September 9, 1893) was one of the first American settlers in the Pacific Northwest.

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Holm O. Bursum

Holm Olaf Bursum (February 10, 1867August 7, 1953) was a politician from the U.S. state of New Mexico, whose activities were instrumental for gaining statehood under the Taft Administration and later served as United States Senator from New Mexico.

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Isaac Stevens

Isaac Ingalls Stevens (March 25, 1818 – September 1, 1862) was an American military officer and politician who served as governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857, and later as its delegate to the United States House of Representatives.

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J. Frank Dobie

James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888 – September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range.

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J. K. Ralston

James Kenneth "J.K." Ralston (March 31, 1896 – November 26, 1987) was an American painter of the Old American West whose primary topics were the American West and images of cowboys and American Indians.

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J. R. Simplot

John Richard Simplot (January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products.

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J. Reuben Clark

Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. (September 1, 1871 – October 6, 1961) was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Jacob Hamblin

Jacob Hamblin (April 2, 1819 – August 31, 1886) was a Western pioneer, a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and a diplomat to various Native American tribes of the Southwest and Great Basin.

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James "Scotty" Philip

James "Scotty" Philip (30 April 1858 – 23 July 1911) was a Scottish-born American rancher and politician in South Dakota, remembered as the "Man who saved the Buffalo" due to his role in helping to preserve the American Bison from extinction.

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James A. Chapman

James A. Chapman (April 3, 1881 – September 22, 1966) was a businessman closely associated with Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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James Dahlman

James Charles Dahlman (December 15, 1856 – January 21, 1930), also known as Jim Dahlman, Cowboy Jim and Mayor Jim, was elected to eight terms as mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, serving the city for 20 years over a 23-year-period.

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James F. Hinkle

James Fielding Hinkle (October 20, 1862March 26, 1951) was an American banker, politician and the sixth governor of New Mexico.

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James J. Hill

James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad director.

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Jean-Pierre Chouteau

Jean-Pierre Chouteau (10 October 1758 – 10 July 1849) was a French Creole fur trader, merchant, politician, and slaveholder.

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Jedediah Smith

Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest during the early 19th century.

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Jesse Chisholm

Jesse Chisholm (circa 1805 - March 4, 1868) was a Scotch-Cherokee fur trader and merchant in the American West.

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Jesse Harper

Jesse Clair Harper (December 10, 1883 – July 31, 1961) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

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Jesse Knight

Jesse Knight (6 September 1845 — 14 March 1921) was an American mining magnate, one of relatively few Latter-day Saints in 19th century Western America to find major success in the field.

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Jim Bridger

James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century.

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John B. Kendrick

John Benjamin Kendrick (September 6, 1857 – November 3, 1933) was an American politician and cattleman who served as a United States senator from Wyoming and as the ninth Governor of Wyoming as a member of the Democratic Party.

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John C. Frémont

John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician.

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John Chisum

John Simpson Chisum (August 16, 1824 – December 22, 1884) was a wealthy cattle baron in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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John Evans (Colorado governor)

John Evans (March 9, 1814 – July 2, 1897) was an American politician, physician, founder of various hospitals and medical associations, railroad promoter, second governor of the Territory of Colorado, and namesake of Evanston, Illinois; Evans, Colorado; and formerly Mount Evans, Colorado.

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John Hailey

John Hailey (August 29, 1835 – April 10, 1921) was an American politician who served as a Congressional Delegate from Idaho Territory.

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John Horton Slaughter

John Horton Slaughter (October 2, 1841 – February 16, 1922), also known as Texas John Slaughter, was an American lawman, cowboy, poker player and rancher in the Southwestern United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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John Muir

John Muir (April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.

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John Palmer Parker (rancher)

John Palmer Parker (May 1, 1790 – August 20, 1868) was the founder of the Parker Ranch on the island of Hawaiokinai in Hawaii.

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John Sparks (Nevada politician)

John Sparks (August 30, 1843 – May 22, 1908), nicknamed Honest John, was an American politician who was the 10th Governor of Nevada.

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John Warne Gates

John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855 – August 9, 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler.

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John Wesley Iliff

John Wesley Iliff Sr. (December 18, 1831 – February 9, 1878) was a Colorado cattle rancher who is the namesake of the Iliff School of Theology in Denver.

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John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions.

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John Wesley Prowers

John Wesley Prowers (January 29, 1838 – February 14, 1884) was an American trader, cattle rancher, legislator, and businessman in the territory and state of Colorado.

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Joseph M. Carey

Joseph Maull Carey (January 19, 1845February 5, 1924) was an American lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician, who was active in Wyoming local, state, and federal politics.

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Joseph McCoy

Joseph "Cowboy" McCoy (December 21, 1837 – October 19, 1915) was a 19th-century entrepreneur known for promoting the transport of Longhorn cattle from Texas to the eastern United States.

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Juan Forster

Don Juan Forster (born John; 1814 – February 20, 1882) was an English-born Californio ranchero and merchant.

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King Ranch

King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States.

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Kit Carson

Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman.

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Laton Alton Huffman

Laton Alton Huffman (October 31, 1854 – February 28, 1931) was an American photographer of Frontier and Native American life.

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Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss (born Löb Strauß,; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.

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Lewis R. Bradley

Lewis Rice "Broadhorns" Bradley (February 18, 1805 – March 21, 1879) was an American politician who was the second Governor of Nevada from 1871 to 1879.

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Lewis Williams Douglas

Lewis Williams Douglas (July 2, 1894March 7, 1974) was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic.

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Linda Mitchell Davis

Linda Mitchell Davis (July 11, 1930 – February 18, 2024) was an American cowgirl inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 1995.

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List of halls and walks of fame

A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or fame in their field.

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Lucien Maxwell

Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than.

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Lynn Riggs

Rollie Lynn Riggs (August 31, 1899 – June 30, 1954) was an American author, poet, playwright and screenwriter.

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Malcolm Baldrige Jr.

Howard Malcolm "Mac" Baldrige Jr. (October 4, 1922July 25, 1987) was an American businessman.

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Manuel Dominguez

Don Manuel Domínguez e Ybáñez (1803–1882) was a Californio ranchero, politician, and a signer of the California Constitution in 1849.

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Mari Sandoz

Mari Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 – March 10, 1966) was a Nebraska novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark.

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Mifflin Kenedy

Mifflin Kenedy (1818–1895) was a rancher, steamboat operator, and investor who settled in Texas.

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Miller Brothers 101 Ranch

The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma before statehood.

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Milward Simpson

Milward Lee Simpson (November 12, 1897June 11, 1993) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator and as the 23rd Governor of Wyoming, the first born in the state.

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Montford Johnson

Montford T. Johnson (November 1843 – February 17, 1896) was Chickasaw and a cattleman who lived in Indian Territory, what is now the present-day state of Oklahoma.

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Moses Kinkaid

Moses Pierce Kinkaid (January 24, 1856 – July 6, 1922) was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Nebraska.

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Murdo MacKenzie

Murdo MacKenzie (April 24, 1850 – May 30, 1939) was twice (1891–1901 and 1922–1937) manager of the Scots-owned Matador Land and Cattle Company, and founding president of the American Stock Growers Association, for whom he testified before congress and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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Nathan Meeker

Nathan Cook Meeker (July 12, 1817 – September 30, 1879) was a 19th-century American journalist, homesteader, entrepreneur, and Indian agent for the federal government.

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National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, with more than 28,000 Western and Native American art works and artifacts. Hall of Great Westerners and National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum are 1955 establishments in Oklahoma, cowboy halls of fame, culture of the Western United States and halls of fame in Oklahoma.

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National Rodeo Hall of Fame

The National Rodeo Hall of Fame was established by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1955. Hall of Great Westerners and National Rodeo Hall of Fame are 1955 establishments in Oklahoma, awards established in 1955, cowboy halls of fame, culture of Oklahoma City, culture of the Western United States, halls of fame in Oklahoma, lists of sports awards, national Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and Sports hall of fame inductees.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Nelson Story

Nelson Story Sr. (April 4, 1838 – March 10, 1926) was a pioneer Montana entrepreneur, cattle rancher, miner and vigilante, who was a notable resident of Bozeman, Montana.

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Newton Edmunds

Newton Edmunds (May 31, 1819 – February 13, 1908) was an American politician who served as the second Governor of Dakota Territory, serving during the American Civil War.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Olaf Wieghorst

Olaf Wieghorst (April 30, 1899 – April 27, 1988) was a Danish-American painter who specialized in depictions of the American frontier.

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Oliver Loving

Oliver Loving (December 4, 1812 – September 25, 1867) was an American rancher and cattle driver.

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Otto Mears

Otto Mears (May 3, 1840 – June 24, 1931) was a Colorado railroad builder and entrepreneur who played a major role in the early development of southwestern Colorado.

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Owen Wister

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction.

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Pawnee Bill

Gordon William Lillie (February 14, 1860 – February 3, 1942), known professionally as Pawnee Bill, was an American showman and performer who specialized in Wild West shows and was known for his short partnership with William "Buffalo" Bill Cody.

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Pedro Altube

Pedro de Altube Idigoras (April 27, 1827 – August 8, 1905) was a Basque-born American rancher who established, along with his brother Bernardo, the renowned Spanish Ranch in northwestern Nevada.

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Peter French

Peter French (April 30, 1849 – December 26, 1897) was a rancher in the western United States in the late 19th century.

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Phoebe Hearst Cooke

Phoebe Millicent Hearst Cooke (July 13, 1927 – November 18, 2012) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist.

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Pierre-Jean De Smet

Pierre-Jean De Smet, SJ (30 January 1801 – 23 May 1873), also known as Pieter-Jan De Smet, was a Flemish Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

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Pony Express

The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California.

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Red Steagall

Russell "Red" Steagall (born December 22, 1938) is an American actor, musician, poet, and stage performer, who focuses on American Western and country music genres.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Richard King (entrepreneur)

Richard King (July 10, 1824 – April 14, 1885) was a riverboat captain, Confederate, entrepreneur, and most notably, the founder of the King Ranch in South Texas, which at the time of his death in 1885 encompassed over.

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Robert A. Funk

Bob Funk Sr. (born 1940 in Duvall, Washington) is the co-founder and president, as well as a board member, of Express Employment Professionals, an employment agency company headquartered in Oklahoma City.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Ross Perot

Henry Ross Perot Sr. (June 27, 1930 – July 9, 2019) was an American business magnate, politician, and philanthropist.

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Rough Riders

The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat.

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S. Omar Barker

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Sacagawea

Sacagawea (or; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May – December 20, 1812)"." ''National Cowgirl Hall of Fame''.

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Sallie Reynolds Matthews

Sallie Reynolds Matthews (born Sarah Anne Reynolds; May 23, 1861–September 14, 1938) is a 1982 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inductee.

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Sam Houston

Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

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Samuel Burk Burnett

Samuel Burk Burnett (January 1, 1849 – June 27, 1922) was an American cattleman and rancher from Texas, owner of the 6666 Ranch, and namesake of Burkburnett, Texas.

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Samuel Worcester

Samuel Austin Worcester (January 19, 1798 – April 20, 1859), was an American missionary to the Cherokee, translator of the Bible, printer, and defender of the Cherokee sovereignty.

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 – December 1, 2023) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Sequoyah

Sequoyah (Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ,, or ᏎᏉᏯ,;, 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.

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Solomon Luna

Solomon Luna (1858–1912) was an American rancher and banker.

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Spencer Penrose

Spencer Penrose (November 2, 1865 – December 7, 1939) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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Stephen F. Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.

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Swante M. Swenson

Swante M. Swenson (February 24, 1816 – June 13, 1896) was the founder of the SMS ranches in West Texas.

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Temple Grandin

Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic and animal behaviorist.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Great_Westerners

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