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Bill Gates (frontiersman)

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"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill"... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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1935
Place of Birth: Idaho
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    Bill Gates (frontiersman)

    "Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935.
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    Gates (surname)

    Bill Gates (frontiersman), a participant in the Klondike Gold Rush
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    Bill Gates (disambiguation)

    Bill Gates (frontiersman), known as Swiftwater (died 1935) of the Klondike Gold Rush
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    List of people from West Virginia

    Patrick Gass, frontiersman ... Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author, educator, and scholar
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    Benjamin Franklin

    When Franklin was minister to France in the 1770s, Paris was awash in miniatures, painting, statues and representations of him, usually dressed as a frontiersman. ... The character played by Nicolas Cage was named "Benjamin Franklin Gates", in following with the Gates family tradition to name sons after Franklin and his contemporaries.
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    List of people from Ohio

    Gates McFadden (actor) (Cuyahoga Falls) ... Simon Kenton (soldier, frontiersman, friend of Daniel Boone) (Urbana)
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    Art Acord

    Coals of Fire (1911) ... Frontiersman ... Go Get 'em Gates (1922) ... Go-Get-'Em Yates
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    William Henry Harrison

    Harrison came from an aristocratic Virginia family, but his supporters promoted him as a humble frontiersman, in the style of the popular Andrew Jackson. ... Jennings · Boon · W. Hendricks · Ray · Noble · Wallace · Bigger · J. Whitcomb · Dunning · Wright · Willard · Hammond · Lane · Morton · Baker · T. Hendricks · Williams · Gray · Porter · Gray · Hovey · Chase · Matthews · Mount · Durbin · Hanly · Marshall · Ralston · Goodrich · McCray · Branch · Jackson · Leslie · McNutt · Townsend · Schricker · Gates · Schricker · Craig · Handley · Welsh · Branigin · E. Whitcomb · Bowen · Orr · Bayh · O'Bannon · Kernan · Daniels
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    Blackface

    The 1830s American stage, where blackface first rose to prominence featured similarly comic stereotypes of the clever Yankee and the larger-than-life Frontiersman; the late 19th- and early 20th-century American and British stage where it last prospered featured many other, mostly ethnically-based, comic stereotypes: conniving, venal Jews; drunken brawling Irishmen with blarney at the ready; oily Italians; stodgy Germans; and gullible rural rubes. ... ↑ Walter, Vic."Gates' Unfinished Business: Racism at Texas A&M." ABC News, The Blotter, November 10, 2006.

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