Benjamin Bonneville
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Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was an American officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West. He is noted for his expeditions to the Oregon Country and the Gr
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Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
Bonneville's grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery
Washington Irving
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Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hol
Benjamin Bonneville
…for blazing portions of the Oregon Trail. During his lifetime, Bonneville was made famous by an account of his explorations in the West written by Washington Irving. Benjamin was born in or near Paris, France, the son of the French publisher Nicholas Bonneville and his wife Marguerite Brazier. When he was seven…
Portrait of Washington Irving in about 1820, attributed to Charles Robert Leslie
Watercolor of Washington Irving's encounter with George Washington, painted in 1854 by George Bernard Butler Jr.
The fictional "Diedrich Knickerbocker" from the frontispiece of A History of New York, a wash drawing by Felix O. C. Darley
Portrait of Washington Irving in 1809 at about 26 years old, by John Wesley Jarvis