George Ruxton

George Frederick Ruxton (born 24 July 1821, died 29 August 1848) was a British explorer and travel writer. He observed the expansion of the USA in the 1840s during the period when the US government was pursuing its policy of manifest destiny.

After a short time serving in the British Army, he left to find fortune as a hunter in Canada - spending time observing the relationships between the U.S. Army and the Comanche Indians. After working as a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains, he then moved to St. Louis from where he wrote articles named Life in the Far West for Blackwood's Magazine, using the pen name La Bonté.^[1] He was a visitor to Bent's Old Fort.^[2] He died in the following year of dysentery or possibly internal injuries consequent upon a fall.^[1]

References

Richard King, Obituary Notice of Lieutenant George Augustus Frederick Ruxton, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848-1856) , Vol. 2, (1850), pp. 150-158. Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014120

Notes

^ ^a ^b "The late George Frederick Ruxton". Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 64 (CCCXCVII): 591–594. November 1848. http://www.archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi64edinuoft. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
^ Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site - A Self-Guiding Tour. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Summer 2002. http://www.nps.gov/beol/planyourvisit/upload/beolguide-2.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-03. ,

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Name	Ruxton, George
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Date of birth	24 July 1821
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Date of death	29 August 1848
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