Forty Niner		the most popular route west to the Pacific
Possibles Sack		Lone Star State
Santa Fe Trail		explorer
Joseph Smith		gold seeker
Conestoga		where mountain men kept their tobacco etc.
Brigham Young		a trapper
Siege		conflict with our S neighbor
John C. Fremont		second Morman leader
Lopez de Santa Anna		a Texas leader
Oregon Trail		Morman religion founder
Cede		continuous attack
Whitmans		someone who takes the law in their own hands
Tejano		Bear Flag Republic
Westword Ho		missionaries
James Polk		president who believed in Manifest destiny
Vigilante		a gathering of mountain men
John Jacob Astor		Spanish priest
Junipero Serra		a fur
Annex		a Mexican general
the Alamo		to add on
Texas		a fur trader's name
Chapultepec		fort outside Mexico City
Pelt		New York newspaper man
Stephen Austin		the idea that the U.S. should expand to the Pacific Ocean
Rendezvous		old Spanish mission
Manifest Destiny		to give up
Mountain Man		the route from MO to NM
Horace Greeley		a Mexican in Texas
Mexican War		a type of covered wagon
California		the call at the start of a wagon train