Word Puzzle

3. movement of cattle herds to market or new grazing lands
4. a long journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase
7. an explorer of the West who reached the summit of the mountain now known as Pike's Peak
8. a Shoshone who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition by naming plants and gathering edible fruits and vegetables for the group
10. owner of the American Fur Company who founded the first important settlement in Oregon Country in 1811
12. the main route from the Mississippi River to the West Coast in the early 1800s
17. name given to 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada
18. fur traders and trappers who traveled to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s
20. a popular route for cattle drives from San Antonio to Abilene,Kansas

1. co-leader of the western expedition
2. led an expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and wrote a report of his journey that became a guide for future travelers to the West
5. a former army captain chosen by President Thomas Jefferson to lead an expedition to explore the West
6. the purchase of Louisiana from France for $15 million, which roughly doubled the size of the United States
9. guide who was first to lead settlers beyond the Appalachians; cut a road west
11. the name given to the Great Plains during the years when they supported great herds of cattle
13. the route from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico
14. members of a religious group, formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who moved west during the 1830s and 1840s
15. Mormon leader who chose Utah as the group's new home
16. an area that is undeveloped
19. towns that serviced new mines and emptied when the mines closed