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unusual facts about frontiersman



Alpheus Michael Bowman

He was a grandson of Kentucky frontiersman Isaac Bowman, as well as direct descendent of early Virginia pioneers Jost Hite and George Bowman, Sr..

Anthony Sadowski

Whether or not he opened an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie and gave his name to Sandusky, Ohio, here lies the greatest Polish frontiersman of colonial times, an organizer of Amity Township in 1719, and founder of the Sandusky family in America.

Boone Dam

Boone Dam is named for frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820), who was active in the general area in the 1760s.

Edward Beale

Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), American naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher and diplomat

Fort Prince George

At the time of the appearance of the French and Indians, Trent had been recalled to Wills Creek for a conference and his second-in-command, Lieutenant John Fraser (frontiersman), was at his own plantation at Turtle Creek on the Mononghela River, leaving Ensign Edward Ward in charge at the time of Fort Prince George's surrender on April 18, 1754.

Isaac Bowman

His brothers, Colonel John Bowman (1738-1784), Colonel Abraham Bowman (1749-1837), and Major Joseph Bowman (c. 1752-1779), were also officers during the Revolutionary War, and all four were early frontiersman who were among the first to settle in Kentucky.

John Mason Peck

On one trip, Peck visited Daniel Boone, then nearly 80, and later wrote a book about the frontiersman's life.

Katherine Anne Porter

Her family tree can be traced back to American frontiersman Daniel Boone, and the writer O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter) was her father's second cousin.

Klamath people

The United States frontiersman Kit Carson admired their arrows, which were reported to be able to shoot through a horse.

Logrolling

American frontiersman Davy Crockett was one of the first to apply the term to legislation:

O. C. Hackett

His father was John Hackett, and his grandfather was noted Kentucky frontiersman and militiaman of the American Revolution, Peter Hackett.

Running the gauntlet

Other European-Americans captured by Indians and made to run the gauntlet included John Stark, Daniel Boone, James Smith, Col. William Crawford, Simon Kenton, Lieutenant-Colonel John B. McClelland, and Susanna Willard Johnson.

Tim Dunigan

He played the role of the titular frontiersman as a young man in The Wonderful World of Disney's 1988 miniseries Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder.

West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine

WVSOM was founded on the principles of osteopathic medicine, a branch of medicine founded by frontiersman Andrew Taylor Still in the mid-to-late 19th century.

William H. Worthington

Both his grandfathers were well-known Kentucky frontiersman Edward Worthington and Gabriel Slaughter and his ancestry can be traced to President James Monroe.

William Hickman

Wild Bill Hickman (William Adams Hickman, 1815–1883), frontiersman in the American West


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