Life in The West

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Across
  1. 2. A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
  2. 4. A settlement with a surge of Chinese population caused by a gold rush
  3. 5. A western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles
  4. 7. A member or follower of a millenarian Christian movement founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith Jr, in particular a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  5. 9. A prospector in the California gold rush of 1849.
  6. 10. A person who works in a mine
  7. 11. A state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States
Down
  1. 1. An infectious viral disease causing fever and a red rash on the skin
  2. 2. Any of the pioneers of the North American Rocky Mountain West who went to that region first as fur trappers
  3. 3. A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area
  4. 6. Seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837
  5. 8. A rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield. The first major gold rush, to California in 1848–49, was followed by others in the US, Australia (1851–53), South Africa (1884), and Canada (Klondike, 1897–98)