Across
- 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
Down
- 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