biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1806–50)
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| biography:
| Trader and writer, born in Overton Co, Tennessee, USA. He made frequent journeys along the Santa Fe Trail (1831–41) and wrote a frontier classic, Commerce of the Prairies (1844). He served in the Mexican War and died of exposure after crossing the Coast Range of California. |
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