Westward Expansion

Mail service on horseback that operated from Missouri to California

• wagon train

• pony express

• Oregon Trail

• cattle drive

The extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness

• frontier

• homestead

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

Sudden panicked rush of cattle or bison

• bronco

• ranch

• stampede

• cattle drive

Land set aside for Native American Indians

• boomtown

• ghost town

• frontier

• reservation

Piece of free land acquired from the government in exchange for living and working on it

• log cabin

• bandana

• homestead

• land rush

Rapid movement of migrants to California, starting in 1848 after gold was found

• Lewis and Clark

• Gold Rush

• cattle drive

• wagon train

American folk hero, pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman

• Daniel Boone

• gunslinger

• Lewis and Clark

• cowboy

Convoy of covered wagons transporting settlers westward

• telegraph

• pioneers

• bronco

• wagon train

Rapidly growing town

• ghosttown

• boomtown

• Louisiana Purchase

• log cabin

System for transmitting messages along a wire

• bronco

• pony express

• telegraph

• pioneers