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While most pioneers went west in search of wealth, one group migrated for religious reasons. The Mormons, who settled Utah, were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Joseph Smith had founded this church in upstate New York in 1830. The Mormons lived in close communities, worked hard, shared their goods, and prospered.

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The Oregon Trail was dangerous, so pioneers joined wagon trains.They knew their survival would depend on cooperation. Before setting out, the wagon train members agreed on rules and elected leaders to enforce them.

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In Oregon there are pigs running about,...round and fat, and already cooked, with knives and forks sticking in them so you can cut off a slice whenever you are hungry.

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Hundreds of settlers also began migrating west on the Oregon Trail, which ran from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory. The first whites to cross the continent to Oregon were missionaries, such as Marcus and Narcissa Whitman in 1836. At that time, the United States and Britain were locked in an argument about which country owned Oregon.

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Becknell could not haul wagons over the mountain pass he had used on his first trip to Santa Fe. Instead, he found a cutoff, a shortcut that avoided steep slopes but passed through a deadly desert to the south. As his traders crossed the burning sands, they ran out of water. Crazed by thirst, they lopped off mules’ ears and killed their dogs to drink the animals’ blood. Finally, the men found a stream.

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Traders also traveled west in search of markets. After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, it opened its borders to American traders, whom Spain had kept out. In response, the Missouri trader William Becknell set out with hardware, cloth, and china for Santa Fe, capital of the Mexican province of New Mexico. By doing so, he opened the Santa Fe Trail, which led from Missouri to Santa Fe. Once in Santa Fe, he made a large profit because the New Mexicans were eager for new merchandise.

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Few of the people who went west shared Smith’s noble motive. To many, the West with its vast stretches of land offered a golden chance to make money. The Louisiana Purchase had doubled the size of the United States, and some Americans wanted to take the land away from Native Americans who inhabited this territory.

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in this slide, During the height of the fur trade, mountain men worked some streams so heavily that they killed off the animals. This forced the trappers to search for new streams where beaver lived. The mountain men’s explorations provided Americans with some of the earliest firsthand knowledge of the Far West. This knowledge, and the trails the mountain men blazed, made it possible for later pioneers to move west.

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Slide 6 is telling you how to learn how hard the mountain men life really was.

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This picture explains that they had to use horses to get around because they didn't have cars or bikes.

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In this slide it's talking about mountain men and the  Rendezvous. Mountain men spent most of the year alone, trapping small animals such as beavers. Easterners wanted beaver furs to make the men’s hats that were in fashion at the time. To obtain furs, mountain men roamed the Great Plains and the Far West, the regions between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, and set traps in icy mountain streams.

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In this slide, it is explaining what the slides are going to be about and how we are going to lean for it.

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Slide 3 is explaining a one man's story. The mountain man Jedidiah Smith was leading an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mountains when a grizzly bear attacked. The bear seized Smith’s head in its mouth, shredded his face, and partially tore off one ear. Smith’s men chased the bear away. Jim Clyman recalled the scene.

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in this slide, the video was on how life as a mountain man was really hard. You had to deal with people dying right in front of you. You also had to know what to do in a crisis .