Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. if you don't make it here by July 4th you're in trouble
  2. 4. people traveled by covered _____________
  3. 5. In 1840 only this many people had traveled west
  4. 7. sometimes people would head to this state instead of Oregon
  5. 9. this was the first river they had to cross
  6. 10. this group of people got stuck and many died
Down
  1. 1. this was the first big fort people would get to
  2. 3. The town in Missouri where the trail started
  3. 6. Lansford ____________ wrote a guidebook for westward travel
  4. 8. this fort, located in southwestern Wyoming, turned into a ghost town