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3 unusual facts about Randolph B. Marcy


Checkered garter snake

The specific epithet, marcianus, is in honor of American Brigadier General Randolph B. Marcy, who led surveying expeditions to the frontier areas in the mid 19th century.

Randolph B. Marcy

Marcy’s 1859 book, The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific, written at the direction of the Department of State and published by the U.S. government, has been called one of the most important works in making possible the great Western overland migration of United States settlers in the last half of the 19th century.

Taylor County, Texas

1849 Capt. Randolph Marcy, U. S. Army engineer passes through scouting out West Texas to California routes.


Black Beaver

When Captain Randolph B. Marcy escorted the first 500 emigrants from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Santa Fe during the gold rush days of 1849, he engaged Black Beaver as his guide.

Enos D. Hopping

A personal and political friend of Secretary of War William L. Marcy, Hopping was appointed a brigadier general in the Regular Army by President James K. Polk on March 3, 1847.

John Y. Mason

In this capacity he attracted attention by wearing at the court of Napoleon III a simple diplomatic uniform (for this he was rebuked by U.S. Secretary of State William L. Marcy, who had ordered American ministers to wear a plain civilian costume), and by joining with James Buchanan and Pierre Soulé, ministers to Great Britain and Spain respectively, in drawing up (October 1854) the famous Ostend Manifesto.

Randolph B. Martine

He was the son of Theodore Martine, a grocer and realtor, descended from French Huguenot immigrants.

Rebecca Sugar

Her work on Adventure Time gained her Emmy Award nominations for "It Came From the Nightosphere" and "Simon & Marcy", and an Annie Award nomination for Best Storyboarding in a Television Production.

William L. Marcy

Marcy returned to public life in 1853 to serve as United States Secretary of State under President Franklin Pierce.


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