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General Hiram U. Grant (Ulysses "S." Grant)

James Wilson Marshall

Philip Danforth Armour

John Augustus Sutter (Johann August Suter)	Charlotte "Lotta" Mignon Crabtree	John Muir	"Black Bart" (Charles Earl Bowles, or you can call me Boles, or you can call me Bolton, or you can....)
Charles Edwin Anson Markham	Horace Greeley	Mark Hopkins, Jr.	Lola Montez Countess of Landsfeld (Eliza Rosanna Gilbert)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)	Amasa Leland Stanford	General William Tecumseh Sherman	Hank Monk
Levi Strauss	Collis Potter Huntington	John Albert "Snowshoe" Thompson (Jon Torsteinson-Rue)	Bret Harte (Francis Brett Hart)