Utah People of Interest

Albert Mussey Johnson

 Albert Mussey Johnson – Death Valley Ranch Owner

Albert Mussey Johnson Albert Mussey Johnson (1872 - 1948) was a businessman and investor who received notoriety as the millionaire, who built “Scotty's Castle” in…
Ben Kilpatrick

Ben Kilpatrick

Ben Kilpatrick Ben Kilpatrick, born around 1874 in Coleman County, Texas, was an American outlaw known as the "Tall Texan," a prominent member of Butch…
Christopher 'Kit' Carson (1809-1868), American explorer - Photograph byMathew Brady or Levin C. Handy - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.00514.

Christopher Houston Carson

Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868), also known as "Kit" Carson, was a nineteenth century American Frontiersman, Army Officer and Politician and…
Harry Longabaugh, alias Sundance Kid, three-quarter length portrait

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was the American outlaw known as the Sundance Kid. A key member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, he became infamous in…
More details Annie Rogers (also known as Della Moore) and Harvey Logan, half-length portrait, facing front

Harvey Alexander Logan

Harvey Alexander Logan, born in 1867 in West Liberty, Iowa, was an American outlaw better known as Kid Curry. A notorious member of Butch Cassidy’s…
James H. Simpson (1813–1883)

James Hervey Simpson

James Hervey Simpson (1813–1883) was a U.S. Army topographical engineer whose 1859 survey of the Central Route across the Great Basin, including White Pine County,…
Drawing of Jedediah Strong Smith (1799–1831), created around 1835 after his death by a friend from memory. It is the only contemporary image of Smith.

Jedediah Strong Smith – Nevada State Historic Marker 84

Jebediah Strong Smith was an early frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the western United States and the subject of Nevada State Historic Marker number…
Powell served as the second Director of the United States Geological Survey, a post he held from 1881 to 1894. This photograph dates from early in his term of office.

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell, a remarkable American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist, was born on March 24, 1834, in Mount Morris, New York. His expeditions through the…

Robert LeRoy Parker

Robert LeRoy Parker, born April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah Territory, was better known as Butch Cassidy, the infamous American outlaw, train robber, and leader…
Historical photo of Wells Spicer, 1875. Cropped from group photo of John D. Lee's defense team for Lee's second murder trial.

Wells Spicer

Wells Spicer (1831–1885 or 1887) was an American journalist, lawyer and judge whose over saw the trial after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone Arizona. Historical photo of Wells…
William "News" Carve

William Carver

William "News" Carve William Carver, also known as William "News" Carver (September 12, 1868 – April 2, 1901) was an American outlaw and member of…