biography
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| lived:
| (?1796–1865)
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| biography:
| Fur trader and explorer, born in Amherst Co, Virginia, USA. He moved to Missouri and became the first American trader to do business in Santa Fe, NM (1821), and pioneered the Cimarron cut-off and the Santa Fe Trail (1822). He moved to Texas, fought in the Texas Revolution (1836), and later joined the Texas Rangers. |
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