This week's Ancestry Connection features Western frontier notables. Per wikitree.com, I
am:

14 degrees from Daniel Boone
16 degrees from John Adams
16 degrees from Annie Butler
16 degrees from Ina Coolbrith Coolbrith
17 degrees from Charles Crocker
17 degrees from Wyatt Earp
23 degrees from George Fletcher
16 degrees from James Hickok
19 degrees from John Muir
18 degrees from Leland Stanford
18 degrees from Myra Starr
37 degrees from Francisco Villa

More about them:

Daniel Boone, pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman who became one of America's first folk
heroes and icons.

John "Grizzly" Adams, legendary mountain man.

Phoebe "Annie Oakley" Butler, sharpshooter and exhibition shooter.

Josephine Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate.

Charles Crocker, one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed
the westernmost portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.

Wyatt Earp, lawman, gambler, saloon keeper, and prospector, best remembered for his
role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

George Fletcher, cowboy and rodeo rider.

James "Wild Bill" Hickok, frontier lawman, gambler, and scout.

John Muir, environmentalist and author.

Amasa "Leland" Stanford, attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party
politician from California.

Myra "Belle" Starr, often called the "Bandit Queen," was a notorious outlaw.

Jose Pancho Villa, El Centauro del Norte.

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