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Names in Mojave Desert History

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Aguereberry, Pete

Death Valley gold miner

Antonio, Chief Juan

Cahuilla Indian - The Protector of the San Bernardino Valley

Beale, Edward F.

Trail blazer and surveyor

Beckwourth, James

He later became a horse trader supplying migrants and others, and then later conducted a horse thief ...

Brown, Charles

Shoshone Sheriff, State Senator

Brown, John

Road builder

Carleton, James Henry

Carleton was relentless, harsh, hardbitten ...

Carson, Christopher

"Kit" Carson

Crowley, Fr. John

Death Valley priest

Fages, Pedro

Fages led an expedition along the edge of the western Mojave along the northern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains looking for ...

Fremont, John Charles

Explorer of the west. His scientific observations helped open up the west to later exlorers and settlers.

French, Dr. Darwin

Military doctor, gold hunter

Garces, Fr. Francisco

In 1775, Garcés, became the first European to meet the Mojave Indians, who ...

Harris, Shorty

Gold hunter extraordinaire ...

Holcomb, William F.

When the gold excitement spread through the country he determined to seek his fortune in California.

Hunt, Jefferson

Captain in the Mormon Battalion - Led the Mojave/San Joaquin Company (Mojave Sand-walking Company) to Southern California, a portion of this company became the ill-fated 'Lost 49'ers'.

Jackson, Helen Hunt

She was sent west as part of a federal commission to investigate conditions among the Mission Indians in 1882, and ...

Keane, Jack

Discoverer of the Wonder Mine ...

Keys, Bill

Rancher in the area that became Joshua Tree National Park

Lane, Aaron G.

Pioneer of the Mojave

Lang, Johnny

Discovered the Lost Horse Mine

Manly, William Lewis

Known for rescuing the Bennett-Arcane party from Death Valley in 1850.

Mitchell, Jack

Developer of Mitchell Caverns

Moraga, Don Gabriel

Nadeau, Remi

Freighter hauling bullion to Los Angeles

Nuez, Fr.

Accompanied the Moraga party of 1819, who went out from the mission on a punitive expedition against ...

Oatman, Olive

Kidnapped by the Yavapai, sold to the Mohave ...

Ogden, Peter Skene

During his many expeditions he explored parts of Oregon, Washington, Nevada, California, Utah, ...

Schmidt, Burro

Eccentric miner

Scott, Walter

"Death Valley Scotty" certainly remains Death Valley's greatest legend for his flamboyant and outrageous character. ...

Searles, John

Discovered and developed Borax deposits at Searles dry lake in Trona

Sitgreaves, Lorenzo

Conducted the first scientific expedition across Arizona in the early 1850's. ...

Slover, Isaac

Slover is known for his association with many other trappers in the American Southwest, including ...

Stoddard, Sheldon

For many years he was engaged in freighting and carrying the United States mail between San Bernardino and Salt Lake City, crossing ...

Smith, Jedediah

In what was to be his first trip across the Mojave, Smith and his band wandered along the eastern Great Basin Desert through ...

Smith, Thomas L.

"Peg Leg" Smith was a mountain man who, serving as a guide for many early expeditions into the American Southwest, ...

Vasquez, Tiburcio

Last of the Mexican banditos to terrorize California in the 1870s

Walkara

Leading his band of followers with his talents and intimate knowlege of the southwest became "the greatest horsethief in history."

Walker, Joseph Reddeford

Scout for General Fremont. Walker found Walker Basin and Walker Pass in 1834.

Weaver, Pauline

He is known in Arizona history as a famous guide and mountain man. ...

Whipple, Amiel W.

In command of the exploration from Fort Smith, Ark., to Los Angeles for a projected transcontinental railroad route near ...

Williams, Bill

Williams was a hunter and trapper who was tall, gaunt, redheaded, and fairly well educated ...

"Willie Boy"

Maybe mis-guided Chemehuevi Indian

Wolfskill, William

Mountain man and orange pioneer.

Young, Ewing

Young's journey to California with traveling companions crossed Arizona, the Colorado River, the Mojave Desert and arrived ...

Yount, George C.

He was the true embodiment of all the finest qualities of an advancing civilization ...


Austin, Mary
Longstreet, Jack
Black, Bob
Arapeen
Cairook
Irataba
Sevastion
Sanford
'Doc' Springer
'Dad' Fairbanks
General Patton
Juan María Antonio Rivera
Fr. Atanasio Domínguez
Fr. Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
Antonio Armijo
Don Antonio Maria Lugo
William Barstow Strong
John Daggett
Isaac Williams
Amasa M. Lyman
Indian Queho
Indian Mouse
Fred T. Perris
Alex Godey
Dick Owens


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