In the topic of people who made remarkable transformations to succeed out West, how about James Kirker.....
Best of all he employed both Shawnees and Delaware, Black folks and even Irish, married a woman of color too, surely a multicultural guy way ahead of his time 🙂
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
