Mexican president who commanded the Mexican troops that wiped out the Texian force at the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
Who is Antonio López de Santa Anna?
100
Antislavery activist who murdered five proslavery settlers on Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas in the aftermath of Charles Sumner’s beating on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Who is John Brown?
100
Skillful ghostwriter of the Corps of Topographical Engineers’ report on the Oregon Trail that stirred great enthusiasm for the Oregon Country in the East.
Who is Jessie Benton?
100
This Lakota leader refused to stand for the “piecemeal penning” of his people.
Who is Crazy Horse?
100
Missouri Indian trader who is largely credited with initiating trade on the Santa Fe Trail in 1822.
Who is William Becknell?
200
Tennessee politician who arrived in Texas just in time for a revolution and to be elected president of the Lone Star Republic.
Who is Sam Houston?
200
Leader of the Seventh Cavalry who killed 103 Southern Cheyennes at Washita River in 1868.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
200
Young single woman who parlayed her business skills into becoming one of the richest residents of the Klondike owning and managing a number of mines and businesses.
Who is Belinda Mulrooney?
200
Chiricahua Apache who didn’t stop resisting white settles in the Southwest until the late 1880s.
Who is Geronimo?
200
Most famous gunman from the “Lincoln County War.”
Who is William Bonney?
300
Pennsylvania Democrat who introduced an amendment to an appropriations bill in 1846 that would bar slavery from any territory acquired in the war with Mexico.
Who is David Wilmot?
300
Tennessee congressman who claimed to represent the common man in Washington D.C., but headed to Texas when he lost his bid for reelection.
Who is Davy Crockett?
300
Successfully took over ranch operations for her sick husband and published a memoir, "The Cattle Queen of Montana."
Who is Elizabeth Collins?
300
Principal war chief of the Diné people before, during, and after removal from their traditional lands who sent his sons to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
Who is Manuelito?
300
Missouri Confederate “bushwhacker” who attacked and burned Lawrence, Kansas in 1863 leaving 182 men and boys dead.
Who is William Quantrill?
400
Republican congressman who bribed public officials with Crédit Mobilier stock to avoid charges of corruption.
Who is Oakes Ames?
400
Missouri ruffian and train robber who was known as a “bold highwayman” by the lower classes who resented the monopolistic practices of large banks and even larger railroad companies.
Who is Jesse James?
400
Maiden name of Marcus Whitman's wife who worked together with him as Protestant missionaries to the Cayuse tribe near Wala Wala, Washington from 1836 to 1847.
Who is Narcissa Prentiss?
400
Leader of the Sauk and Fox tribes who attempted to move his people back across the Mississippi River to Illinois in 1832 only to be hunted down and “pacified” by local militias.
Who is Black Hawk?
400
Partner of Henry Wells who jointly operated a system of California stage lines which through consolidation eventually became the American Express Company.
Who is William Fargo?
500
New Mexico’s governor who surrendered Santa Fe to Kearny without firing a shot in August 1846.
Who is Manuel Armijo?
500
Famous lawman and gunfighter who killed two men in a bloody shootout in Abilene, Kansas in 1871—one of them being his own deputy.
Who is James “Wild Bill” Hickok?
500
Took over her husband’s Texas panhandle ranch on his death and provided for herself and her family running the operation with the help of a foreman.
Who is Ella Bird-Dumont?
500
Arapahoe chief who supported peaceful relations with whites but was shot down at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory on November 29, 1864.
Who is White Antelope?
500
California banker who financed the integration of mines, mills, smelters, railroads, and lumber companies on the Comstock Lode.