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Guides are people who lead people. This includes people of the real world (such as a person who helps travelers and tourists through a place). In figurative language it may mean person who leads someone to some goal such as to knowledge or wisdom.

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  • Anselm Klotz(L)-Josef Frey(R)

    Austrian alpine mountain guides Anselm Klotz (left) and Josef Frey (right), 19th century

  • Tourguide2

    A tour guide at the Centre Block in Canada.

  • Raquette River - at Sweeney Carry

    Adirondack guides (carrying and rowing guideboats on the Raquette River, 1888

  • Jim Bridger

    Famed mountain man Jim Bridger served as guide and army scout during the first Powder River Expedition in 1865 against the Sioux and Cheyenne in Dakota and Montana Territories

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