# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/randolph-b-marcy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:52:55.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/randolph-b-marcy"
name: "Randolph B. Marcy"
slug: "randolph-b-marcy"
description: "Randolph Barnes Marcy was an officer in the United States Army, chiefly noted for his frontier guidebook, the Prairie Traveler (1859), based on his own extensive experience of pioneering in the west. This publication became a key handbook for the thousands of Americans wanting to cross the continent. In the Civil War, Marcy became chief of staff to his son-in-law George B. McClellan, and was later appointed Inspector General of the U.S. Army."
tagline: "Union Army general (1812-1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Randolph_B._Marcy_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1812-04-09"
deathDate: "1887-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             16.50846091861402
  historical:           6.350001333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Randolph Barnes Marcy"
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    title: "راندولف بي. مارسي"
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    title: "راندولف بى. مارسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_B._Marcy"
    title: "Randolph B. Marcy"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_B._Marcy"
    title: "Randolph B. Marcy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Barnes_Marcy"
    title: "Randolph Barnes Marcy"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_B._Marcy"
    title: "Randolph B. Marcy"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump