Chapter 5 Vocab, Places & People

3. The first wagon train to travel through Utah's mountains
7. a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region
8. The first known wagon train to cross northern Utah
9. Wrote an editorial that first mentioned the term "Manifest Destiny"
12. barren, deserted
13. Fort established by Jim Bridger in Wyoming's South Pass. Turn off point to take Hastings cutoff
16. A fabled river that was said to connect the Great Salt Lake & the Pacific Ocean
17. German and Swiss friends that ignored Hastings and used the cutoff. They bathed in the Great Salt Lake on their way to California
18. The first wagon train to use the Hastings cut off
19. He was the developer of a shortcut across what is now the state of Utah, a factor in the Donner Party disaster of 1846

1. At nineteen years old. She became the first white woman to enter northern Utah. She travelled to California on a wagon train, in a party that included her husband, their infant daughter, and about thirty other men.
2. An alternative route for pioneers/emigrants to use to reach California that started at Fort Bridger, took them south of the Great Salt Lake and east across the Salt Flats.
4. United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s
5. to replace or make complete again
6. Nicknamed the "Pathfinder". This American military officer and explorer mapped much of Utah and the Oregon Trail. His 1845 report on explorations encouraged westward movement
10. Trail from independence Missouri to Oregon City, used by many pioneers during the 1840s
11. Was an American fur trader and mountain man who built and occupied Fort Buenaventura in what is now the city of Ogden, Utah
14. A group of emigrants that got stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains after taking the Hastings Cutoff. Starving, they resorted to cannibalism in order to stay alive
15. Major overland emigrant route across the Western United States from Missouri to California that cut through northern Utah in the middle 19th century