People of the West
Explorers
John Grizzly Adams
James Beckworth
Jim Bowie
Kit Carson
John Fremont
Joseph Meek
Zebulon Pike
John Simpson Smith; AKA Blackfoot Smith
Jim Baker
Daniel Boone
Jim Bridger
Davy Crockett
Ben Lilly
Moses Embree "California Joe" Milner
Tom Tate Tobin
John Bozeman
Gunfighters and Outlaws
Frank James
Billy “the Kid” Allen
Apache Kid
Juan Cortina; AKA Robin Hood of the Rio Grande
Harry Longabaugh; AKA Sundance Kid
Thomas Coleman “Cole” Younger
Bob Dalton
Jack McCall
George Parrot; AKA Big Nose George
Henry Borne; AKA Dutch Henry
Hoodoo Brown
James M. Riley; AKA “Doc” Middleton
Sam Bass
Ben Thompson
Jessse James
Robert Clay Allison
Butch Cassidy
John Wesley Hardin
Crawford Goldsby; AKA Cherokee Bill
Tiburcio Vasquez
Harvey Logan; AKA Kid Curry
James Averell
Isaac “Ike” Black
Henry Newton Brown
Thomas Ketchum; AKA Black Jack
Joaquin Murietta
Francisco Villa; AKA Pancho Villa
Lawmen
Bass Reeves
Tom Horn
Wyatt Earp
Judge Roy Bean
Tom Nixon
Isaac Charles Parker; AKA Hanging Judge
Wild Bill Hickok
Doc Holliday
Frank Eaton; AKA Pistol Pete
Daniel Boone May
Pat Garrett
Native Americans
Big Foot; AKA Spotted Elk
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Geronimo
American Horse
Chief Gall
Black Elk
Sequoya
Conquering Bear
Chief Joseph
Big Foot
Red Cloud
Cochise
Roman Nose
Lone Wolf
Wovoka
Black Kettle
Washakie
Dull Knife
Chief Looking Glass
Stand Watie
Quanah Parker
Soldiers
George Custer
William Tecumseh Sherman
John Gibbon
Mariano Vallejo
Oliver O. Howard
Alfred Terry
Marcus Reno
George Crook
Philip Sheridan
Theodore Roosevelt
John Gibbon
John M. Chivington
Nelson A. Miles
William J. Fetterman
Women
Calamity Jane
Nellie Cashman
Biddy Mason
Susan Magoffin
Laura Wilder Ingalls
Virginia Reed
Stagecoach Mary Fields
Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló;AKA La Tules
Belle Starr
Polly Bemis
Juana Maria
Annie Oakley
Kitty Leroy
Mary Catherine Haroney; AKA Big Nose Kate
Zee James (wife of Jesse)
Mary Bong
Juana Briones de Miranda
Molly Goodnight
Georgia Arbuckle Fix
Pearl Hart
Sarah Winnemucca
Lotta Crabtree
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Mother Joseph
Tabitha Brown
Esther Morris
Elisabet Ney
Baby Doe Tabor
Julia Louisa Lovejoy
Cattle Kate
Alice Fletcher
Emmeline Wells
Alice Ivers Tubbs; AKA Alice Poker
Isabella Bird
Mary Arkwright Hutton
Narcissa Marcus Whitman
Ann Eliza Webb Young
Helen Hunt Jackson
Trail Blazers and Cowboys
Buffalo Bill
Nat Love (Deadwood Dick)
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
William Becknell
Charles Goodnight
Nate Champion
Josiah Gordon "Doc" Scurlock
Bill Picket
Other Colorful Characters
Levi Strauss (jeans)
Jack Langrishe (actor)
James Marshall (gold miner)
Brigham Young (Mormon leader)
Domingo Ghirardelli (chocolate)
Solomon Star (Deadwood leader)
John Perrett; AKA Potato Creek Johnny
Samuel Brannan (millionaire)
George Donner*
John Sutter (gold)
Charles Crocker (railroads)
Seth Bullock (Deadwood merchant)
Jay Gould (railroad financier)
John Muir (environmentalist)
Joseph Smith
William Bent (trader)
Joseph F. Glidden (barbed wire)
Samuel Colt (revolver)
Bret Harte (author of mining tales)