Frontier Figures

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Loudoun and supporte d the commonly known as the Transylvania and Watauga Purchases. Cherokee alphabet. He was the father of , uncle of Nancy Ward, and great uncle of .

He was the second Tennessean to He fought with be elected president. A protege of at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Andrew Jackson, this man served as governor of , campaigned on a platform of led Texas' army during its Manifest Destiny and steered the revolution, served as president of country into the Mexican War in the Republic of Texas and was the 1846. first governor of Texas.

He was a North Carolina land speculator who purchased 20 million He was chosen by Henderson to lead acres of land in Middle Tennessee a group of men overland to establish and Kentucky in the 1775 settlement along the Cumberland Transylvania Purchase. He also River near French Lick in 1779. organized the Cumberland Settlement expeditions and the surveyingFrontier of the Wilderness Figures Road. 1 He was the son of . He was chosen by Henderson to lead He opposed the Transylvania and a group of settlers to the Cumberland Watauga Purchases. He became Settlement by way of the Holston to leader of the Chickamauga, a group the Tennessee to the Ohio Rivers and of Cherokee who fought against finally down the Cumberland River. white settlements especially in Middle Tennessee.

She was also known as Nanye-hi. She He was known as a hunter and became a “Beloved Woman” after storyteller, fought in the Creek picking up her husband’s gun and War, became a Congressman, leading a charge against the Creeks. opposed Jackson's Indian Removal She later married a trader. She policy, lost his seat in Congress, moved to Texas and died at the supported white settlement and Alamo. warned Sevier of anattack by Dragging Canoe.

He was also known as Nolichucky He was Cherokee red chief or war Jack. He was a leader in the Wata uga chief. He was imprisoned at Fort settlement. He helped orga nize and Prince George in 1759 and later lead the Overmountain Men at the Battle of King’s Mountain. He was returned and had the fort’s commander killed. g overnor of the failed State of Franklin and was the first governor of Tennessee.

He was the son of a Cherokee He won victories at Horseshoe mother and merchant father who Bend and New Orleans, was served as Principal Chief of the elected president, destroyed the Cherokee from 1828-1868. He Bank of the United States, stopped fought removal in the courts and the Nullification Crisis and began when that failed tried to help his policy of Indian Removal. people survive the Nancy Attakullakulla Ward

John Sevier James K. Polk

Oconostota Dragging Canoe James John Robertson Donelson

Richard Sequoyah Henderson

David Sam Crockett Houston

John Andrew Ross Jackson