Wild West Personalities

Question 1

Red Cloud

Answer 1

Lakota leader who sought peace with President Grant, though his land rights were repeatedly violated

Question 2

George Armstrong Custer

Answer 2

Unfortunate and foolhardy, leader of the 7th Cavalry at the Little Big Horn river in Montana

Question 3

Wyatt Earp

Answer 3

US marshal of tombstone, Ariz. Who suvived a famous gunfight at the O.K Corral

Question 4

Henry Ossein Flipper

Answer 4

First A-A to graduate (1877) the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY

Question 5

Charles Goodnight

Answer 5

Started the first cattle drives from Texas to the railroads hundreds of miles north

Question 6

Jesse James

Answer 6

Confederate veteran who took to crime with his brother Frank and the younger brothers

Question 7

Nat Love

Answer 7

A.K.A “Deadwood Dicks” perhaps the most famous of A-A cowboys

Question 8

Sitting Bull

Answer 8

Lakota warrior who led the successful attack on the 7th cavalry at the Little Big Horn

Question 9

William F. Cody

Answer 9

“Buffalo Bill,” who memorialized the “Wild West” in a famous traveling show

Question 10

Richard Henry Pratt

Answer 10

Buffalo soldier commander who believes that to “Save a man,” one had to “Kill the Indian”

Question 11

Luke Short

Answer 11

“The Undertaker’s Friend” because he shot men “Where is wouldn’t show”

Question 12

Emanuel Stance

Answer 12

First A-A recipient of the US Medal of Honor (1870) as a Buffalo Soldier

Question 13

Belle Starr

Answer 13

Neither beautiful nor virtuous, SHE was a desperado of the Wild West

Question 14

Kit Carson

Answer 14

Famed guide and scout for the westward expansion in the 1st half of the 19th century

Question 15

Jim Thorpe

Answer 15

MOST famous attendee of the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian School and, maybe Americas greatest athlete

Question 16

Patricia Reid

Answer 16

Survivor of the Dawner Party