By wagon, by horse, by foot- but usually bypassed deserts where they could.
homestead act
The pioneers started to move from the east and midwest to the west in the mid 1800s looking for gold and better life.
Due to the Louisiana Purchase people were settling in the West.
The American pioneers migrated west in the late 1800s. They intended to settle new territories that had not already been developed by Europeans or Americans.
Life of George bennard 1873
homestead act
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The pioneers started to move from the east and midwest to the west in the mid 1800s looking for gold and better life.
1800s
pioneers found high spots in the river to cross with their wagon
California
The Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The pioneers crossed the Sierra Nevada mountain range to enter California on their journey westward.
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Desert
Pioneers needed to cross the Appalachian mountain range in order to get to Kentucky and Tennessee. They used the Cumberland Gap, a path through the mountain range, to do so.
the Gerdosian Desert