Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de

Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de

(1796–1878) soldier; born in or near Paris, France. He came to the U.S.A. in 1803 and graduated from West Point in 1815. His record of his expedition to the Green River in Wyoming (1832–35) was edited by Washington Irving and published as The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West.

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