User:Smallchief/Most famous people of the Old West

This article ranks the most famous (and infamous) people of the American Old West. The rankings were determined by totaling the average views of Wikipedia articles about individuals during a three month period. The three months arbitrarily chosen to compile the rankings were November and December 2011 and January 2012. The "West" was defined as west of the Mississippi River in the United States and adjacent parts of Mexico and Canada. The time period of the "Old West" was defined as extending back in history to any time prior to World War I. To be eligible for inclusion in the list individuals had to have spent a large part of their lives in the West or to have achieved much of their prominence due to the time they spent in the West.

Rank	Name	Ave. number of Wikipedia views monthly	Notes
1	Mark Twain	767,580	Wikipedia rank: 1,605
2	Jesse James	152,086	Wikipedia rank: 2,103
3	Billy the Kid	133,436	Wikipedia rank: 1,297
4	Wyatt Earp	115,320	Wikipedia rank: 5,939
5	John Brown (abolitionist)	95,461	Wikipedia rank: 4,296
6	Doc Holliday	76,914	Wikipedia rank: 9,989
7	George Armstrong Custer	73,938	Wikipedia rank: 8,017
8	Geronimo	71,400
9	Davy Crockett	68,624
10	Pancho Villa	67,958
11	Sitting Bull	57,220
12	Sacagawea	53,063
13	Crazy Horse	50,765
14	Wild Bill Hickok	49,682
15	Buffalo Bill	48,699
16	Annie Oakley	47,512
17	Sam Houston	47,047
18	Calamity Jane	46,908
19	Hernando de Soto	39,105
20	Butch Cassidy	37,128
21	Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna	37,003
22	Brigham Young	36,235
23	Robert Ford (outlaw)	28,437
24	Stephen F. Austin	28,022
25	James Bowie	26,753
26	Levi Strauss	25,323
27	Francisco Vasquez de Coronado	23,624
28	Meriwether Lewis	23,559
29	Johnny Ringo	21,502
30	Chief Joseph	19,798
31	Pat Garrett	18,980
32	John Wesley Hardin	18,808
33	William Clark (explorer)	17,951
34	Bat Masterson	17,328
35	Kit Carson	17,127
36	Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca	16,948
37	John C. Fremont	16,732
38	Cochise	13,498
39	Red Cloud	13,203
40	Sundance Kid	13,188
41	Frank James	13,021
42	Josephine Earp	12,741
43	Belle Starr	11,774
44	Quanah Parker	11,411
45	Jedediah Smith	10,148

Note: All data compiled from Wikipedia article traffic statistics located at "View history" and "Page view statistics" for each individual listed. Traffic statistics used for the months of 201201, 201112, and 201111.

Footnotes

Category: Superlatives Category: Top people lists Category: People of the American Old Westrok.se/en/201201/