The Pioneers
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- The Pioneers
- Settled as farmers on the West Coast of California and Oregon
- Pull Factors
- Mountain Men described it as a place of opportunity
- 1842
- Government offered free land
- Pull Factors
- 1837
- Economic Depression
- The East was overcrowded and expensive
- 1837
- Journey
- 3800 km
- 6 Months
- Problems
- Geography
- Rivers
- Missouri
- Platte
- Rocky Mountains
- Desert
- 38 Degrees
- No water
- Rivers
- Weather
- Hottest time
- Little water
- Causes storms
- Hottest time
- Attacks
- Bears and Mountain Lions
- Plains Indians
- Stole horses or hostages
- Food
- Food was scarce
- Geography
- The Donner Party
- Trapped in the Sierra Mountains in Winter
- Ran out of food
- Some left to get help
- Some of these died of starvation
- The others had to eat the dead
- Some of these died of starvation
- Some left to get help
- Early Settlers
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