54 people found
People in Category: American folklore
James Purcell
American trapper and trader
Myeerah
18th-century Native American woman
Fabian Fournier
Canadian–American lumberjack
Michael Zittle Jr.
Novelist
Molly Pitcher
Frank James
American college basketball player (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Wild West
Andrew Jackson Borden
Birth/death: 1822-1892 LCAuth[n94064594] VIAF[11538034]
Joe Hill
Australian politician
Alice Young
Wife of Neil deGrasse Tyson
Samuel Wilson
Person associated with the witch trials in Scotland
Katherine Elder
Accused of witchcraft
Simon Kenton
American explorer
Tiburcio Vásquez
Californian bandit
Clell Miller
American outlaw
Peter Stuyvesant
Dutch politician
Doc Holliday
American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist
Johnny Appleseed
American missionary and pioneer nurseryman
Joe Hill
Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Calamity Jane
American scout and frontierswoman
Betsy Ross
American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag
Molly Pitcher
American woman soldier who fought in the American War of Independence at the Battle of Monmouth
Roy Bean
American judge
Squanto
Native American contact of the Pilgrims
Chief Powhatan
Paramount chief of Tsenacommacah
Jedediah Smith
American explorer
Daniel Boone
American settler
Tom Horn
American outlaw
Frank Hopkins
American horseman
Annie Oakley
American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter
Wild Bill Hickok
American folk hero and lawman
Mike Fink
American sailor
Cattle Annie
American outlaw; bookkeeper
Aaron Y. Ross
Little Britches
American outlaw
Richard Bullock
American gunman
William S. Williams
American frontiersman
William A. A. Wallace
Texas ranger
Thomas Hinde
British doctor
Syksey
Member of the Bowery Boys and lieutenant to Mose the Fireboy.