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Bill Williams Mountain was named for a colorful mountaineer, guide, and trapper who is generally credited with being the first American to explore northern Arizona in 1830 or earlier. Williams lived at different times among the Osage and Ute Indians, and earlier had been a Baptist circuit rider in Missouri. He was killed by Indians in 1849.
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