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Buffalo
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Any of various wild oxen; popularly, the American bison
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Cholera
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Any of several intestinal diseases
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Conestoga Wagon
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A broad-wheeled covered wagon used for hauling freight in colonial America; named after Conestoga Valley, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the wagons were made
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Drought
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long period of dryness
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Emigrate
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to leave one's place of residence to live elsewhere
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Emigration
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The act of emigrating, or moving away
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Epidemic
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A disease that spreads rapidly among many individuals in a community at the same time; the rapid spreading of such a disease
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Midwest
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The part of the United States wehst of the Appalachian Mountains, east of th Rocky Mountains, and north of the Ohio River and teh southern boundaries of the Missouri and Kansas
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Migrate
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To move from one place to another, change
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Migration
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Movement from one place to another
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Missionary
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A person sent on a mission, often a religious one; a person who tries to convert people of other faiths to his or her own faith
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Native Americans
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The collective name for the thousands of people who lived on present-day United States land long before Europeans settled in the Americas; also know as American Indians
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Oregon Country
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Territory stretching form presint-day morthern Califormia to the southern border of Alaska
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Oregon Trail
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Former route extending from the Misssouri, northwest to the Columbia River in what is today Oregon, much used by westward migrants 1840-1860
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Pioneer
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A person who goes before, preparing the way for others, as an early settler, for example
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Plains
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Large areas of level or rolling largely treeless country
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Prairie
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A large area of level or slightly rolling grassland, especially one in the Mississippi Valley
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Prairie Schooner
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A large, box-shaped covered wagon used by pioneers in the nineteenth century to cross the American prairies
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Reservation
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Land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans
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Sagebrush
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Any of a number of grayish plants that smell like sage, common in dry, alkaline areas of western North America
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Topography
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The science of drawing on maps and charts or otherwise representing the surface features of a region, including its relief and rivers, etc,; the surface features of a place or region
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Trailblazer
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A pioneer in any field; one who first ventured west, creating or "blazing" the trail
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Westward Ho!
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The phrase that became a symbol of encouragement and daring to settlers headed west
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Emily
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Ashikari
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