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The first child born in the Roanoke colony.
Native American subject of a Longfellow song.
Sea captain and respected New York merchant. Not much of a pirate though.
Better known as Blackbeard.
This buccaneer sailed only once from France to New Orleans. Then amassed a fortune by smuggling slaves and merchandise.
Captured Fort Ticonderoga with his Green Mountain Boys.
The 'swamp fox' of South Carolina
Frontiersman said to have 'grinned down' an attacking bear
Frontiersman John Chapman roamed from Pennsylvania to Indiana planting fruit trees.
This 'king of the keelboatmen' was said to have drank a gallon of whisky a day.
This Kentuckian dealt with Jean Lafitte and died at the Alamo with knife in hand.
This teenage native American guided Lewis & Clark through the northwest.
This trapper fascinated Easterners with tales of Yellowstone's boiling rivers and geysers
He had a rope that reached from the Rio Grande to the Big Bow and rode a horse named Widow Maker.
The West's most famous desparado was born in New York City before being raised in New Mexico
When he was three weeks old, he rolled around so much in his sleep that he destroyed four square miles of standing timber.
'Steel-driving Man' who defeated a steam powered drill while building the Big Bend tunnel for the C&O railway.
Notre Dame halfback who asked that the team to go out there and win one for him.
This 'king of the wild frontier' was a three-term U.S. congressman who died at the Alamo.
This 'unsinkable' socialite urged the crew to return the capsize site to look for Titanic survivors
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