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| Brigham Young | Took over for the killed founder of the Mormon Church and moved them to Utah |
| Joseph Walker | Hired by Benjamin Bonneville to find a practical trail to California that eventually became known as the California Trail |
| Sam Houston | Ex-governor of Tennessee who led the Texan army |
| John O'Sullivan | Newspaper editor who coined the term "Manifest Destiny" |
| Joseph Smith | Founded the Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints and was killed |
| Susannah Dickerson | Alamo survivor who rode out and spread the work of the Texans' defeat |
| William Becknell | known as the Father of the Santa Fe Trail |
| James Gadsden | the US Minister to Mexico who negotiated the purchase of a strip of land in present-day Arizona for $10 million |
| Moses Austin | Missouri banker who died before he could lead 300 families into Texas |
| Manuel Lisa | Spanish American trader from St. Louiis who built a fort on the Little bighorn and Yellowstone Rivers |
| Stephen Austin | man who took over for his father when he died to lead the families into Texas |
| John Sutter | gold was first discovered in California on his land |
| James K. Polk | became President of the US after John Tyler |
| John C. Fremont | the man sent the US gov't to survey and map the Oregon Trail |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | army officer who had taken over Mexico's government |
