Explorers

Pathfinders, surveyors, and adventurers who mapped the continent and opened the American interior to settlement.

Brigham Young

Mormon prophet and colonizer who led 70,000 people into the desert and built a civilization

John C. Frémont

The Pathfinder of the West whose maps drew settlers into California and Oregon

John Wesley Powell

The one-armed Civil War veteran who ran the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

Sacagawea

Shoshone guide and interpreter whose knowledge made the Corps of Discovery possible

Zebulon Pike

The Army officer who explored the southern Louisiana Purchase and never climbed Pikes Peak