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4. The practice of having more than one wife.
5. People who were members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,founded by Joseph Smith in New York in 1830.
8. An African American fur trapper and explorer from Virginia.
9. The person who ordered the Lewis and Clark expedition.
11. The place in Utah where the pioneers were headed during 1846.
12. The Nez Perce tribe referred to this as the "Black Book".
15. The 16-year old Shoshone wife of a French Fur Trapper.
16. A property or an amount of money left for someone in a will.
17. The trading for animal fur.
21. The French Fur trapper that helped Lewis and Clark during their expedition.
22. Also called "kyus", which were braids that Chinese men wore.
23. The trail Marcus Whitman took to return with a group of settlers from the east.

1. Mexico won it's independence in 1821 and took over this place.
2. 350,000 people traveled in these between 1840-1869 to the west.
3. California's most important industry during the 1830s.
6. Women who were wives and mothers who were looking for new opportunities.
7. An African American man enslaved by William Clark.
10. The river where gold was discovered in California in 1848.
13. A Californian who speaks Spanish.
14. An early immigrant that was treated very well and was called an adopted citizen.
18. Narcissa Whitman described it as “the most terrible mountains for steepness.”
19. One of the oldest and largest Chinese communities in the USA.
20. The people who joined the rush in California for gold in 1849.
21. These people are also called mountain men.