Biographies

American West  Plains

Indians
Big Foot  | Indian chief who led major revolts against the US Army and Government.
Sitting Bull | Indian chief who led major revolts against the US Army and Government
Little Crow | Indian chief who led major revolts against the US Army and Government.
Black Kettle | Indian chief who led major revolts against the US Army and Government
Chief Joseph | Indian chief who led major revolts against the US Army and Government.
Wovoka | Indian mystic and spiritual leader who encouraged Indians to resist Reservations.

Soldiers
General Custer | Important Army soldier in the conflicts with Plains Indians.
General Sherman | Important Army soldier in the conflicts with Plains Indians.
General Sheridan | Important Army soldier in the conflicts with Plains Indians.
Colonel Chivington | Important Army soldier in the conflicts with Plains Indians.
Lewis & Clark | Early mapmakers who were important in producing the first maps in the 1820s of the Plains.
Goodnight & Loving | The pair who drove the first cattle drives north from Texas.

Law and Order
‘Wild’ Bill Hickok | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Calamity Jane | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Butch Cassidy | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Wyatt Earp | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Bat Masterson | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Jesse James | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Billy ‘the kid’ | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
‘Judge’ Roy Bean | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
‘Buffalo’ Bill | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
John Wesley Hardin | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Joe Meek | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
James Marshall | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.
Leland Stanford | A major figure in the lawless and dangerous West.

Mormons
Joseph Smith | Leader and Prophet of the Mormons.
Brigham Young | Leader and organiser of the Mormons.

 

Medicine 


·        Hippocrates | Father of medicine from the Greek Empire
·        Aristotle
·        Galen
Medieval
·        Avicenna
Renaissance
·        Vesalius
·        Harvey
·        Lady Montagu
Modern
·        Jenner
·        Pasteur
·        Nightingale – Public Health
·        John Snow   – Public Health

·        Garrett-Anderson
·        Koch
·        Becquerel
·        Marie Curie
·        Beveridge - Public Health
·        Fleming
·        Florey and Chain
·        Bevan
·        Bazalgette – Public Health
·        Crick
·        Watson
·        Paul Ehrlich
·        Gerhard Domagk
·        Emil Behring

Surgery

Pare
Freud
Horace Wells
Archibald McIndoe
Robert Liston
Landsteiner
James Blundell
Humphry Davy
Hannah Greener
Wells
Lister
Simpson
Barnard

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