The Genealogist's U.S. History Pocket Reference: Quick Facts & Timelines of American History to Help Understand Your Ancestors by Hendrickson Nancy

Author:Hendrickson, Nancy [Hendrickson, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4403-2538-0
Publisher: Family Tree Books
Published: 2013-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Famous People of the Era

Cochise (c.1805–1874): Leader of an Apache uprising that began in 1861

Geronimo (c.1829–1909): American Indian who fought against Mexico and the United States; became a celebrity later in life

Sitting Bull (c.1831–1890): Leader of the Hunkpapa band of the Sioux

Chief Joseph (1840–1904): Leader of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce; renowned as a peacemaker

Crazy Horse (c.1840–1877): War leader of the Oglala Lakota; his first major success was against troops from Fort Phil Kearny in 1866

Christopher “Kit” Carson (1809–1868): Indian fighter, trapper and guide

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok (1837–1876): Frontier gambler, scout and gunfighter

William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846–1917): Soldier, scout and buffalo hunter

Jules Verne (1828–1905): French author, considered the Father of Science Fiction. Among his works are Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jesse Woodson James (1847–1882): Notorious outlaw from Missouri

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902): Social activist and leader in the women’s rights movement

Susan Brownell Anthony (1820–1906): Co-founder of the first Women’s Temperance Movement

P.T. Barnum (1810–1891): American showman, founder of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Clara Barton (1821–1912): Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross

Zachary Taylor (1784–1850): Twelfth president of the United States; Veteran of the War of 1812, Black Hawk War and Mexican-American War

Francis Parkman (1823–1893): American historian, best known for his The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882): Philosopher and poet, leader of the Transcendentalist movement

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862): Writer who influenced philosophers, political leaders and ordinary men and women in many parts of the world

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864): American novelist, known for The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville (1819–1891): Wrote Moby-Dick , a novel about a whale hunt that has become an American classic

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835–1910): American newspaperman and novelist, best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849): Poet and literary critic; considered the master of mystery fiction

Walt Whitman (1819–1892): Civil War nurse, poet, essayist; His Leaves of Grass was considered a controversial work during his lifetime

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): Introverted and reclusive poet who lived a sheltered life in Amherst, Massachusetts; less than a dozen poems were published during her lifetime

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865): Sixteenth president of the United States; led the United States through the Civil War; assassinated, in 1865; before being elected president in 1860 he had served in the Black Hawk War and worked as a lawyer on the frontier

Mary Todd Lincoln (1818–1882): Wife of Abraham Lincoln, daughter of a wealthy Kentucky banker

John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865): American actor and Southern sympathizer; assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865; was shot and killed while hiding from an Army patrol

Gordon Meade (1815–1872): Veteran of the Second Seminole and Mexican-American Wars; defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg; President Lincoln replaced Meade as commanding general of the U.S. Army with Ulysses S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885): Eighteenth president of the United States; West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican-American War; his leadership of the U.S. Army during the Civil War brought victory to

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