Benjamin Bonneville

Biography

Benjamin Bonneville combined a career as a United States Army officer with a spirit of exploration that led him across the American West. His expeditions helped map vast territories and provided invaluable information about routes, resources, and Indigenous peoples during a formative era of expansion.

The tales of his travels, later chronicled in his own writings, captured the imagination of Americans and Europeans alike, and Bonneville's name endures in the geography of the West as a reminder of his adventurous dedication to opening the continent.