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| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent these explorers through the Louisiana Territory to find a water route that reached the Pacific Ocean. |
| Annie Marshall Grinter | Member of the Delaware tribe who operated a ferry boat on the Kansas River. |
| Stephen H. Long | American explorer who published a map describing Kansas as the “Great Desert.” |
| William Becknell | Trader from Missouri who is known as the “Father of the Santa Fe Trail”. |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | Spanish explorer who traveled into central Kansas in search of the mythical city of gold, Quivira. |
| Zebulon Pike | The first American explorer to travel over land in Kansas who described it as a desert and compared it to part of Africa. |
| Claude Charles Du Tisne | French explorer sent to Kansas to institute a trade/political relationship with the powerful Comanche tribe. |
| Thomas Jefferson | U.S. president that purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. |
| Andrew Jackson | U.S. President that pushed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 through Congress. |
