Considered savages and had no rights.

People who headed west for adventure and hunted their own furs.

A country that kicked out the Spanish government and adopted a constitution in 1824 which made it a republic.

An Island in nothern Europe where many immigrants come from to America.

A purchase which bought land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains which double the size of the U.S.

To say, "I miss saw you for an Indian"

A trail that ended at a small town where Americans would sell everything they own for tons of profit.

A newly married 18-year-old who was excited about going west and wrote a diary of the journey.

Large railroad trains that thundered across buffalo ranges.

In 1832 a thousand men turned up for the rendezvous celebration. There were skins of white, black, and copper, they all go along!

A Santa Fe trader that published a book on the trader's life, 'Commerce of the Prairies' in 1844.

A disease in 1846 that destroyed the potato crop in the U.S. has in passed affected Ireland.

Called the Great American desert, it was a large area of plains also referred to as the "Garden of Eden".

A mountain man who did not smoke, drink or chew tobacco. His bible was very important. Found the south pass through the Rockies in the Wyoming region.

A young army officer that headed west in 1806, the same year Lewis and Clark came back.

A diary that inspired Susan Magoffin's diary.

A U.S. Army major, professor of mathematics at West Point, and graduated near the top of his class at Dartmouth College.

The starter of the mountain men that created the idea of hunting beaver instead of buying them off Indians.

An expedition that proved that Zebulon Montgomery Pike was wrong, that no one could ascend to the pinnacle of the mountain. (Do not know name of mountain)

Susan Magoffin's brother-in-law who was a successful trader who married an Indian woman and settled in Santa Fe.