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Benjamin Bonneville

US soldier, born in or near Paris, France. He went to the USA (1803) and trained at West Point (1815). His record of his expedition to the Green River in Wyoming (1832-5) was edited by Washington Irving and published as The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, USA, in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West.


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