biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1840–88)
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| biography:
| Explorer and ethnologist, born in Maysville, Kentucky, USA. He joined the US Geological Survey and, with Dr Ferdinand Hayden, explored the Missouri, Columbia, and Snake Rivers to their sources. He participated in the Yellowstone region survey (1871) and was probably the first white man to climb the Great Teton (1872). After 1879 he worked for the US Bureau of Ethnology, and studied the languages and customs of the Blackfeet, Navaho, Zuni, Hopi, and Pueblo Indians, collecting and cataloguing a great deal of their cultural materials. |
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