R & R Unit 8, Section 2

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Across
  1. 4. Debris that was left behind to lighten the load on cattle and oxen and is short for ‘leave ‘er right here.’
  2. 5. A widespread “disease” in which many Americans headed for Oregon County.
  3. 7. An immigrant of German descent who established the American Fur Company in 1808.
  4. 8. The route that opened the Northwest for the missionaries and settlers.
  5. 9. Fur trappers of the Northwest that were mostly found in the Rocky Mountains.
Down
  1. 1. The captain that led a wagon train filled westward which soon became the Santa Fe Trail.
  2. 2. The African American man who found a major route to California via the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
  3. 3. A famous fur trader who was scalped by a bear yet survived.
  4. 6. A French word that means meeting.
  5. 10. The first Americans to move into the Far West.