| A | B |
|---|
| James J. Hill | Builder of the Great Northern Railroad |
| Red Cloud | Oglala Sioux Chief who resisted white advancement |
| Sitting Bull | Led Sioux against Custer |
| Chief Joseph | Leader of Nez Perce Tribe, famous surrender speech was: "I will fight no more forever." |
| Colonel John Chivington | Army officer who led the massacre of Cheyenne at Sand Creek |
| General George A. Custer | Killed at the battle of the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| Sioux | Plains Indian Tribes |
| Nat Love | Wrote about his adventures as "Deadwood Dick" in Dime Novels |
| "Wild Bill" Hickok | Frontier figure, stagecoach driver, Union Army spy & scout, Marshal of Abilene & Hays City, shot from behind by Jack McCall while playing poker. |
| Annie Oakley | Lived during transition from frontier to 20th century & believed to be the best lady shot in that time |
| Peter O'Riley & Patrick McLaughlin | Struck gold & silver at Comstock Lode, Nevada |
| Cyrus McCormick | Made his fortune designing, building, and selling farm equipment. |
| Crazy Horse | In 1886 he was a chief who with a group of Sioux ambushed 81 cavalry troops, killing them trying to protect the Black Hills from settlers. Defeated Custer. |
| Geronimo | His surrender in 9/1886 ended Apache armed resistance. |
| Sarah Winnemucca | A Paiute Indian one of the first to call for reforms in the reservation system |
| Leland stanford | Railroad builder & Gov. of Calif., founder and president of the Central Pacific Railroad |
| Joseph McCoy | Established a market where southern ranchers and northers buyers would meet in Abilene, Kansas. |
| Exodusters | Large group of southern African Americans who settled in western lands in the late 1800s. |
| Immigrants | moved to the Great Plains for economic opportunity |
