Event class: river, expedition, fort, near, led, territory, indian, lake, company, chief

Events with high posterior probability

Jane Swisshelm	In 1862, when a Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota resulted in the deaths of hundreds of white settlers, Swisshelm was among those demanding the federal government punish the Indians.
Peter A. Sarpy	Following the United States' negotiation in 1854 of a treaty by which the Omaha people ceded their land in Nebraska, that year Sarpy was among the group that laid out the town of Bellevue.
John Clough Holmes	In June 1855, Holmes and the society's executive committee visited nine sites of offered land, including some near the present towns of Holt, Millett, DeWitt, and Haslett.
Arthur Henry Neumann	On his return trip to Mombasa on 25 May 1891 the returning party was attacked by the Maasai in retribution for the confiscation of Maasai cattle by a previous expedition led by Neumann's hunter friend Frederick Jackson.
Robert W. Service	The railroad that Service rode in on, the White Pass and Yukon Route, had reached Whitehorse only in 1900.
Alfred Preis	He eventually settled in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was detained for three months at the Sand Island Detainment Camp in Hawaii after the December 7, 1941 attack as part of the internment policy of Japanese and German American s. Preis designed several landmark buildings in Honolulu, including the entrance to the Honolulu Zoo, but is best known for the USS Arizona Memorial.
Harold Innis	Thus, Innis travelled extensively beginning in the summer of 1924 when he and a friend paddled an canvas-covered canoe hundreds of miles down the Peace River to Lake Athabasca ; then down the Slave River to Great Slave Lake.
John McKinlay	McKinlay was chosen by the South Australian House of Assembly in August 1861 to lead an expedition to search for the Burke and Wills expedition party, whose fate was unknown.
John Horse	Horse returned to Florida in 1839 to recruit people for removal.
Joseph Smith	In response to an 1834 revelation, Smith led a small paramilitary expedition, later called Zion's Camp, to aid the Missouri Mormons.
Luther Standing Bear	Standing Bear interpreted and recruited students for Pratt at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, led the Carlisle Indian Band across the Brooklyn Bridge upon its opening ceremony on May 24, 1883, and served as a student intern for John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
White Bull	White Bull and Wendell Smoke (Wendell was the son of Chief Solomon'' Smoke'') took over as the main headmen of Bald people and Short Bald people bands of the Bad Faces after Chief Solomon'' Smoke'' had died in 1895 at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota.
Burt Alvord	In 1902, Alvord assisted Arizona Rangers Captain Burton C. Mossman in capturing the Mexican bandit Augustine Chacon in exchange for the reward money and a reduced sentence.
Robert O'Hara Burke	The small team of Burke, William Wills, John King and Charley Gray reached the mangrove s on the estuary of the Flinders River, near where the town of Normanton now stands, on 9 February 1861.
Nicholas Foran	In the late summer and fall of 1868, Foran was part of a small cavalry detachment ordered to secure settlements and protect the Arizona Territory from Apache raiding parties.
Wild Cat (Seminole)	At the start of the Second Seminole War, the nineteen-year-old Wild Cat gained prominence leading a band of Seminoles and Black Seminoles until his father's capture and imprisonment in Fort Marion in 1837.
Henry R. Jackson	In 1859, he unsuccessfully prosecuted the owners and crew of the slave ship,'' The Wanderer'', probably the last ship to attempt to bring African into the United States for sale as slaves.
Sherod Hunter	Hunter's men fought engagements against the California Column at Stanwix Station and Picacho Pass before retreating east to Texas in May 1862.
Caleb S. Pratt	He was a founding member of The Stubbs, a militia company that was organized on April 16, 1855 to protect Lawrence and the people of Kansas Territory.
Thomas Moran	His sketches, along with photographs produced by survey member William Henry Jackson, captured the nation's attention and helped inspire Congress to establish the Yellowstone region as the first national park in 1872.
John Horse	He died en route to Mexico City in 1882, intending to try to gain more land rights for his people in northern Mexico.
Frederick W. Lander	After its completion in 1859, the Lander Road became popular with wagon trains as an alternate route from Burnt Ranch in the Wyoming Territory to Fort Hall in the Oregon Territory.
American Horse	On March 31, 1887, Chief American Horse, Chief Blue Horse and Chief Red Shirt and their families boarded the S. S. State of Nebraska in New York City, leading a new journey for the Lakota people when they crossed the sea to England on Buffalo Bill's first international to perform at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and tour through Birmingham, Salford and London over a five -- month period.
Isaac Graham	In 1830, he joined a hunting and trapping party at Fort Smith, Arkansas that included George Nidever.
Archibald H. Gillespie	After delivering his messages, Gillespie turned around and headed back to California where he helped Fremont take over the Bear Flag revolt of 14 June 1846 in California.
Robert E. Lee	In 1860, Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee relieved Major Heintzelman, Fort Brown, and the Mexican authorities offered to restrain'' their citizens from making predatory descents upon the territory and people of Texas... this was the last active operation of the Cortina War''.
Francis Joseph Fitzgerald	In 1905, Fitzgerald had met at Fort Resolution with a patrol led by Dr. George Pearson Bell.
John Willis Menard	He was sent to British Honduras in 1863 to investigate a proposed colony for newly freed slave s.
Rufus Saxton	His antebellum career included posts fighting Seminoles in Florida, teaching artillery tactics at West Point, surveying the uncharted Rocky Mountains on George B. McClellan's staff in advance of the Northern Pacific Railroad (1853), and map work for the Coastal Survey.
James Douglas (governor)	In 1841 Douglas was charged with the duty of setting up a trading post on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, upon the recommendation by George Simpson that a second line of forts be built in case the Columbia River valley fell into American hands (see Oregon boundary dispute).
Sam Steele	In 1877, he was assigned to meet with Sitting Bull, who, having defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, had moved with his people into Canada to escape American vengeance.
Ike Clanton	More than a year later, probably sometime in December 1880, Wyatt was told the horse was being used near Charleston, and Wyatt and Holliday were forced to ride to the Clanton's ranch near Charleston to await ownership papers in order to legally recover it.
Washakie	In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshone s to the council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851).
Hans Mattson	In August 1853, Mattson led a group of several hundred Swedish immigrants to settle in Goodhue County, Minnesota.
Hippolyte Camille Delpy	In 1886, Delpy traveled to the United States as part of a team that painted a panorama of the battle of Manassas (American Civil War) in Washington DC.
George S. Park	In 1854 while leading a trip up the Kansas River, he established the town of Polistra near the mouth of the Big Blue River.
James McKay (fur trader)	He also worked on Treaty No 6 which was signed at Fort Carlton and Fort Pitt in 1876.
Cornelius Gallagher (Canadian politician)	In 1888, Cornelius moved to Battleford, Saskatchewan, from which he supplied meat to troops suppressing the North-West Rebellion ; he later supplied the North-West Mounted Police.
Thomas J.C. Amory	In 1857, Amory (by that time a first lieutenant) participated in the Utah War -- an armed dispute between the U. S. government and the Mormon settlers in Utah Territory.
Hyrum Smith	In 1834, under the direction of Joseph Smith, he recruited members for a militia, Zion's Camp, and traveled with the group to the aid of the Latter Day Saints in Missouri.
John A. Macdonald	Unwilling to pay for a territory in insurrection, Macdonald had troops put down the uprising before the 15 July 1870 formal transfer, but as a result of the unrest, the Red River Colony joined Confederation as the province of Manitoba, while the rest of the purchased lands became the North-West Territories.
Richard Owen (geologist)	columnar basalt on Lake Superior In the summer of 1849 Owen assisted his brother, David Dale Owen, in conducting a geological survey of northern Minnesota and the shores of Lake Superior.
Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier	On March 26, 1885, Crozier lead a group of approximately 100 mounted police and Prince Albert Volunteers from Fort Carlton and a seven-pounder gun to bring back provisions which were running low at Fort Carlton.
Elias Nelson Conway	left | thumb | Drawn in 1859 by David Dale Owen of the Natural Steps Conway ordered David Dale Owen to survey the territory west of Little Rock.
William W. J. Kelly	In 1837, he served as a private with his father in a company of men that was formed in Pensacola to cross the bay and round up wayward Creek Indians, slated for removal to Oklahoma.
James Porter (7th Cavalry)	On June 27, 1876 troops searching for Custer found some of the first evidence of Custer's demise in an abandoned Indian village when they'' found the buckskin jacket of Lt. James Porter (Co.
Manuel Antonio Chaves	In 1841, he probably negotiated the surrender of about half of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition.
Bob Walker (photographer)	After graduation in 1974 he drove with Dog across country, entering the San Francisco Bay Area through Altamont Pass whose sensual hills he would note were the cause of his love affair with California.
Michael Rockefeller	Several leaders of Otsjanep village, where Rockefeller likely would have arrived had he made it to shore, were killed by a Dutch patrol in 1958, and thus would have some rationale for revenge against someone from the'' white tribe.''
George Mardikian	In the summer of 1920, Mardikian worked with Captain Eddie Fox and George D. White of the Near East Relief organization to create an Armenian Boy Scout unit.
Tommy Windich	Sometime in 1866 Windich was stationed to Beverley, where he continued his usual work as a native assistant, but was also sent on a number of exploring expeditions.
Frederick Wedge	Needing funds to relocate from El Paso, Texas to Tucson, Arizona to enroll in the University of Arizona, and after extensive training which he believed cured him of tuberculosis, on January 1, 1919, Hedge fought Sergeant Tommy Murphy, the welterweight champion of the Southwestern United States, who was serving with the US 5th Cavalry at Fort Bliss,.
Robert John Armstrong	During the week of August 2, 1930, Captain Michael Riordan and Armstrong hosted a lay retreat for men from the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Sacramento Valley region at a Jesuit retreat center near Los Altos, California.
George Stoddart Whitmore	In 1868 he conducted a campaign against the celebrated Te Kooti, who had just escaped from the Chatham Islands, and drove him and his followers into hiding.
William H. Strayer	On April 25, 1872, Strayer left the fort with the rest of Company B led by Captain Charles Meinhold on the trail of a band of Miniconjou Sioux who had raided the McPherson station on the Union Pacific Railroad, located approximately five miles from the fort, killing several men and stealing a large number of horses.
Paul Kane	On May 9, 1846, Kane departed by steamboat from Toronto with the intent to join a canoe brigade from Lachine at Sault Ste. Marie.
Grant Short Bull	Short Bull was with the Soreback band on the Tongue River in January 1876 when the government's ultimatum was delivered to the northern bands.
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan	By 1919, despite the British having built large stone forts to guard the passes to the hills, Hassan and his armed bands were at large, robbing and killing.
Isaac Cowie	In 1873, he dissuaded disgruntled First Nations from raiding the fort by meeting an armed band of them at the fort with two other men, revolvers in hand.
Te Kooti	On July 4, 1868, Te Kooti led an escape, and with 168 other prisoners seized the schooner Rifleman, with supplies and rifles, scuttled another vessel the Florence so that the alarm could not be raised and set off back to the North Island.
Moses A. McLaughlin	Captain McLaughlin sent 90 soldiers and 26 Paiute including Captain George to trail Joaquin Jim through Round Valley, up Pine Creek and over Italy Pass into the Sierras, losing him a week later in late June 1863.
Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus	In 1846 his longing for exploration took hold and he joined a merchant expedition to Santa Fe.
Ira Hatch	In 1866, during Utah's Black Hawk War Hatch led a group that visited the Shebits and Kiabab bands of Indians.
William H. Illingworth	Illingworth and the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment departed for the Black Hills on 2 July 1874 from Fort Abraham Lincoln on the west bank of the Missouri River, seven miles south of what is now Mandan, North Dakota, and returned 30 August 1874.
James H. Simpson	In 1849, Lieutenant Simpson surveyed areas in the American Southwest, between Santa Fe and the Navajo tribal lands.
Eadweard Muybridge	In 1873, Muybridge was commissioned by the US Army to photograph the Modoc War against the Native Americans in northern California and Oregon.
Lozen	According to Kimberly Moore Buchanan's book Apache Women Warriors, Lozen fought beside Nana and his handful of warriors in his two-month long bloody campaign of vengeance across southwestern New Mexico in 1881.
Goodale Sisters	In the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in December 1890, she cared for the wounded with Dr. Charles Eastman, a Santee Sioux doctor of part Anglo-American ancestry.
William Walker (Wyandot leader)	In 1832, Walker headed a delegation of five Wyandot to explore their proposed new lands.
John Baptiste DuBay	He was the interpreter for Governor Dodge at the Treaty of St. Peters (1837).
Frederick Walker Pitkin	He ordered the suppression of the Ute Indian uprising at the Milk Creek Battle or Meeker Massacre in 1879.
Clarence L. Maxwell	On August 23, 1909, Maxwell confronted Deputy Sheriff Edward Black Johnstone in Price, Utah, who had been tasked to stop a possible robbery that Maxwell had been planning.
John A. Macdonald	In late 1838, Macdonald agreed to advise one of a group of American raiders who had crossed the border to liberate Canada from what they saw as the yoke of British colonial oppression.
William Watson Ogilvie	In 1868 William, accompanied by his brother Alexander Walker Ogilvie, travelled to Hungary to inspect the latest milling processes and adopted them into their own mills to produce a superior grade of flour.
Harold W. Clark	In 1938, Clark visited the oil fields of Oklahoma and Northern Texas, where his observation of deep drilling confirmed long-standing suspicions that there existed a meaningful geological column, a position adamantly denied by Price.
Black Kettle	He survived the Third Colorado Cavalry's Sand Creek Massacre on the Cheyenne reservation in 1864.
Alfred Tozzer	In the summer of 1907, he joined Dixon, Alfred Kidder and Sylvanus Morley on a purely archaeological expedition to Rito de los Frijoles in New Mexico (today part of Bandelier National Monument).
Edward Drinker Cope	In 1874 Cope was employed with the Wheeler Survey, a group of surveys led by George Montague Wheeler that mapped parts of the United States west of the 100th meridian.
Red Shirt (Oglala)	In 1879, Red Shirt, along with Blue Horse and American Horse, enrolled their children in the first class at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Halleck Tustenuggee	Halleck, with a band of seventy warriors, was finally defeated by Federal troops on April 19, 1842, near the settlement of Peliklakaha Hammock (in today's Lake County, Florida), the last battle of the Second Seminole War in Florida.
John McKinlay	In September 1865 he was chosen to lead and expedition to explore the Northern Territory and to report on the best sites for settlement.
Robert Maitland O'Reilly	He served at Camp Date Creek, Fort McDowell, Camp Renon, Fort Whipple, Camp Halleck, and Fort Union, all in the extreme southwest, until June 1870, during which time he saw considerable field service against Native Americans.
Jesse Chisholm	Chisholm hence played a major role as guide and interpreter for several Indian groups at the Tehuacana Creek councils beginning in spring 1843, when he coaxed several tribes to the first council on Tehuacana Creek near the Torrey Brothers trading post eight miles south of the site of present-day Waco.
Logan Fontenelle	Several years later, in August 1846 he acted as an interpreter for Big Elk when he signed an illegal treaty with Brigham Young to allow the Mormon pioneers to create a settlement on Omaha territorial lands.
Clyde Snow	In 1991, Snow traveled to San Vicente, Bolivia, to carry out a search for the remains of the American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Paul Kane	From there on Kane followed the same route he had taken two years earlier going west : by the Lake of the Woods, Fort Frances, and Rainy Lake, he travelled by canoe to Fort William and then along the northern shore of Lake Superior until he reached Sault Ste. Marie on October 1, 1848.
Thomas O. Larkin	He had entered into a dialog with General Mariano Vallejo with the goal of arranging a peaceful annexation of California when the Bear Flag Revolt began on 14 June 1846 and the General was captured and imprisoned by a band of Americans who had heard a rumor that the Californio authorities were thinking of arresting all Americans.
Chief Blue Horse	Chief Big Mouth and his party was dispatched by General William S. H arney and returned on January 16, 1867, after spreading news that fine gifts awaited warrior chiefs if they came into Ft. Laramie to sign new treaties.
Arthur Tracy Lee	His company, along with four other companies of the 8th US Infantry, established Fort McKavett in 1852, to protect west Texas settlers and to act as a rest-stop for California-bound immigrants.
William Henry McNeill	On 14 March 1843 Captain McNeill anchored off Vancouver Island in McNeill Bay to scout the location for Fort Victoria.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton	In the summer of 1877, Singleton led approximately seventy-three black settlers to Cherokee County near the town of Baxter Springs.
George W. McIver	In 1885 he was part of a force sent to Rock Springs, Wyoming to intervene during unrest between Chinese and white miners (the Rock Springs Massacre).
Robert Jay Mathews	Mathews believed that the White race was in danger, and in 1982 he made an effort to attract White families to the Pacific Northwest, or the'' White American Bastion.''
Mike Morgan	In 2010, he created the'' Robinson's Transport Wounded Warrior Hunt'', a hunting trip for military members who have received a Purple Heart.
Crazy Horse	Crazy Horse and other northern Oglala leaders arrived at the Red Cloud Agency, located near Fort Robinson, Nebraska, on May 5, 1877.
Henry Newman (Medal of Honor)	On July 13, 1872, Newman set off from Camp Crittenden with a small cavalry detachment under the command of Second Lieutenant William P. Hall to pursue an Apache raiding party that had stolen cattle from a local Mexican rancher.
Philip Henson	He would not return home until 1859 after leading a settlement expedition to the Mesilla Valley (now New Mexico) where he earned the rank of Captain which was conferred upon him by the grateful company of settlers.
Gail Borden	About 1849, his attention was drawn to the need of more suitable supplies for settlers crossing the plains, and after some experimenting he produced the'' pemmican'', which Elisha Kane carried with him on the Second Grinnell Expedition.
Black Kettle	In 1861 he and the Arapaho surrendered to the commander of Fort Lyon under the Treaty of Fort Wise, believing he could gain protection for his people.
George A. Smith	Smith later said he was uncomfortable, perhaps'' on account of my extreme timidity'', because some of the militia members were eager that'' their enemies might come and give them a chance to fight and take vengeance for the cruelties that had been inflicted upon us in the States'', such as the Haun's Mill massacre where 18 Mormons were killed in 1838 in a skirmish with the Missouri Militia during the Mormon War.