George Frederick Ruxton (24 July 1821 – 29 August 1848) was a British explorer and travel writer. He was a lieutenant in the British Army, received a...
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Ruxton may refer to: Ruxton, a place in Herefordshire, England Ruxton-Riderwood, Maryland, United States Ruxton Creek, Manitou Springs, Colorado, United...
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Mexico, American troops stopped in Socorro. A British officer, Lt. George Ruxton, commented that these soldiers were "unwashed and unshaven, were ragged...
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the Zunis, Hopis, and Navajo were claimed to be of Welsh descent by George Ruxton (Hopis, 1846), P. G. S. Ten Broeck (Zunis, 1854), and Abbé Emmanuel...
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characters, including Kit Carson, Jim Beckwourth, Ceran St. Vrain, George Ruxton, William Bent, and others. The book contains an "anthropologically accurate"...
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barricaded, and the inhabitants afraid to venture out of their doors. —George Ruxton, 1846 The Comanche conducted their raids in Mexico with no risk of retaliation...
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Ruxton Park is a park in Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado at 9,078 feet (2,767 m) in elevation. The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, which departs...
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Trail to Taos, New Mexico, crossed Greenhorn Creek. In 1847, traveler George Ruxton described Greenhorn as "one adobe hovel of a more aspiring order" and...
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who served as a cook. In 1848 Charlotte Green described herself to George Ruxton as "de only lady in de whole damn Injun country". Her cooking won her...
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Defoe's character, Robinson Crusoe. Thomas Berwick married Jeanie Ruxton, whose father George had been similarly accused in 1862 for the destruction of a ship...
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