biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (?1770–1823)
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| biography:
| Frontier figure, born at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, USA. A masterful scout, marksman, and wrestler, he became the ‘king of the keelboatmen’. He died on a trapping expedition to the Rocky Mountains. His popularity as a folk hero endured until the Civil War period. |
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