Life in The West

3. A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
4. A prospector in the California gold rush of 1849.
5. A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area
7. Any of the pioneers of the North American Rocky Mountain West who went to that region first as fur trappers
9. Seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

1. 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)
2. A settlement with a surge of Chinese population caused by a gold rush
6. A person who works in a mine
8. 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.