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This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the U.S. state of Colorado. It includes people who were born, raised, or have significant relations with the state. Coloradans have been prominent in many fields, including literature, entertainment, art, music, politics, and business.
This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.
African American pioneers of Colorado First name Last name Image Birth–death Year Description Charles Autobees (1812–1882) 1847 Trapper, trader, and founder of Autobees, Colorado: James Beckwourth (c. 1799–c. 1866) 1822 (c.) American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. He was mixed-race and born into slavery in Virginia.
Marty Hoey (1951–1982) US, mountain guide and ski patroller, died on Everest attempting to become the first US woman to ascend it; Charles F. Hoffmann (1838–1913) US, surveyor and mountaineer, several first ascents in Sierra Nevada; Jim Holloway (born 1954) US, bouldering pioneer, and first to ascend a boulder at the grade of V12 (8A+) with ...
Chief Ouray and Chipeta. Ancestral Puebloans — A diverse group of peoples that lived in the valleys and mesas of the Colorado Plateau; Apache Nation — An Athabaskan-speaking nation that lived in the Great Plains in the 18th century, then migrated southward to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, leaving a void on the plains that was filled by the Arapaho and Cheyenne from the east.
John Brown (December 22, 1817 – April 20, 1889) was an American mountain man and trader in the Arkansas River valley in Colorado in the 1840s. From the 1850s until his death he was a prominent businessman and citizen of San Bernardino, California.
List of people from Westminster, Colorado; List of people from Wheat Ridge, Colorado; List of first women lawyers and judges in Colorado; List of Colorado Women's Hall of Fame honorees; Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
The party included Jedediah Smith and many others who would later become famous mountain men. [6] For the next 20 years, he roamed the continental interior between the Canada–U.S. border and the southern boundary of present-day Colorado, and from the Missouri River westward to Idaho and Utah, either as an employee of or a partner in the fur ...