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trek
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to make one's way with difficulty
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odyssey
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1 : a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
2 : an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest |
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migration
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to move into or come to live in a region or community especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population
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expansion
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the act or process of increasing territorially or economically
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Conestoga Wagon
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a broad-wheeled covered wagon drawn usually by six horses and used especially for transporting freight across the prairies
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buffalo chips
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animal feces used, after being dried in the sun, as material for burning when wood was not available
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Continental Divide
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the watershed of North America comprising the line of highest points of land separating the waters flowing W from those flowing N or E, coinciding with various ranges of the Rockies, & extending SSE from NW Canada to NW S. America
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Great American Desert
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a term used in the 19th century to describe the western part of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America. The area is now usually referred to as the High Plains
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Manifest Destiny
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a future event accepted as inevitable <in the mid-19th century expansion to the Pacific was regarded as the necessary policy of the United States>;
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missionary
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a person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission
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