Such a person is called a pioneer.
People wanted to go west and settle there. Some went west to get rich, by usually finding gold.
Abolitionists
homesteaders pioneers Some were homesteaders because they were offered land to settle in the West.
They went west because of the California Gold Rush.
Manifest Destiny
northwest
Japanese immigrants did not settle in large number in the West after the Civil War.
west
The Homestead Act promised free land to those who would settle in the West.
they wished to settle west
Utah.
The NWMP didn't settle - they were a police force in the north west of Canada. They were sent out west to protect settlers and First Nations.and poo