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	Dr. Susan Anderson (1870-1960) Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Doc Susie: High Country Physician Doc Susie (Susan Anderson)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) About.com Notable Women Katharine Lee Bates: Teacher & Poet Wellesley College Biography Katharine Lee Bates Shrine
	William Bent (1809-1869) PBS Series on the West Old West Web Ride Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site Gravesite
Black Kettle (d.1868) PBS Series on the West Black Kettle: Man of Peace Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle Chief Black Kettle The Story of the Battle of the Washita
	Charles Boettcher (1852-1948). Denver's Most Famous Characters B iographical Sketch of Charles Boettcher's Life Boettcher Foundation Biographical Sketch
Clara Brown (1803-1885) Denver's Most Famous Characters Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Distinguished Women of Past & Present Afro-American Almanac Biographies
	Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown (1867-1932) Molly Brown House Museum Timeline Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Distinguished Women of Past & Present Encyclopedia Titanica
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850 - 1917) National Women's Hall of Fame Biography from Mother Cabrini Shrine Biography from Encyclopedia.com
	Kit Carson (1809-1868) PBS Series on the West Desert USA Biography
Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981) Denver's Most Famous Characters Biography from Penrose Library
Chipeta (1843-1924) San Luis Valley Museum Association Photograph and information on Chipeta
	William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill" (1846-1917) Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave PBS Series on the West Buffalo Bill Museum The American West
Adolph Coors (1847-1929) Biography.com
	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510-1554) Factmonster Desert USA PBS Series on the West
Barney Ford (1822-1902) Denver's Most Famous Characters Colorado State Archives
	Dr. Justina Ford (1860-1952) Denver's Most Famous Characters Early Illinois Women Lest We Forget
William Gilpin (1813-1894) PBS Series on the West Colorado State Archives 1901 Hisory of Denver
	Horace Greeley (1811-1872) American Western History Museums Horace Greeley Kansas City Museum
John Gregory John H. Gregory Legend
	Emily Griffith (1868-1947) Denver's Most Famous Characters The Early Years From Dream to Reality Serving Soup Keeping up with the Times An Unsolved Mystery
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Biography of Helen Hunt Jackson Historical Soceity of Southern California
	Frances Wisebart Jacobs (1843-1892) Colorado Women's Hall of Fame National Women's Hall of Fame
Little Raven (d. 1889) Denver's Most Famous Characters Millennium Awards
	Hattie McDaniel (1895 - 1952) Encylopedia Britannica (via PBS) Hattie McDaniel Page Africana.com
Enos Mills (1870-1922) Enos Mills Cabin Museum & Gallery Brief Biography Short Biographical Sketch Written by Mrs. Enos A. Mills Biography.com
	Annie Oakley (1860 - 1926) Annie Oakley Foundation National Women's Hall of Fame Buffalo Bill Museum Cowgirl's Dream
Chief Ouray (d. 1880) Chief Ouray, Historical Ute Leader American West Magazine Colorado State Archives American Byways
	General William Jackson Palmer (1836-1909) Biographical Sketch from History of Glen Eyrie William J. Palmer: A Biographical Sketch Biography written by kids Biographical Information from Garden of the Gods
	Zebulon Pike (1779–1813) The Expedition of Zebulon Pike Old West Web Ride Factmonster Zebulon Montgomery Pike Kansas City Museum
Mary Rippon (1850-1935) Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Mary Rippon, a profile -- Mary Rippon Time Line
	Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953) Denver's Most Famous Characters National Women's Hall of Fame National Statuary Hall Collection
Silver Heels Buckskin Joe Frontier Town & Railway Alma Colorado Silver Lining Excerpt Legend of Silverheels Ballad
	Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith (1860-1898) Denver's Most Famous Characters How One Man Tried to "Clean Up the Town"
Robert Speer Denver, The City Beautiful (scroll to the right) Denver Business Journal
	Augusta Tabor Doeheads Page Money, Love, and Ruin in the American West Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal Horace Tabor, Baby Doe Tabor & the Matchless Mine
Baby Doe Tabor Baby Doe Tabor and the Matchless Mine Doeheads Page The Story of Horace & Baby Doe Tabor Money, Love, and Ruin in the American West Horace Tabor, Baby Doe Tabor & the Matchless Mine
	Horace Tabor (1830-1899) Doeheads Page Money, Love, and Ruin in the American West Colorado State Archives The Story of Horace & Baby Doe Tabor Horace Tabor, Baby Doe Tabor & the Matchless Mine
Robert "Bob" Womack Robert "Bob" Womack of Colorado The Man Behind Cripple Creek's Gold Rush
Notable People in the History of Colorado and the American West (Coal Creek Elementary School) Colorado Explorers Jeffco Social Studies Page