Transcript My story of exploring

By:
Maci Conley
Riley Williams
Alexis Birkhimer
 The
men mostly hunted for beavers. They
used the beaver fur for hats worn in
American cities and Europe.
 Men
usually had very bad fights with
grizzly bears. One man named Hugh
Glass survived being mauled and left the
wilderness in spite of his injuries.
A
guy named James Bridger’s nickname
was ”Old Gabe” he was 17 when he went
on his first expedition.
A
guy named Lewis took his dog,
Seaman, on the expedition he was one of
the people that explored the wilderness.
 Mountain
men are usually depicted in
books and movies for being loners.
Actually the men travel from 40 to 60
men.
 In spite of all the difficulties and the
dangers of the trip. Only one man died
and his name was Charles Floyd his
death they think was caused by
appendicitis.
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BY: RILEY WILLIAMS
 In
1801 Thomas Jefferson was elected
president of the United States. He really
wanted to find out what was in the
wilderness west of the Mississippi River. He
bought a huge piece of land from France.
This became the Louisiana purchase.
 Thomas
Jefferson picked his secretary
Meriwether Lewis to go to the Louisiana
purchase and the far west. Lewis asked his
friend William Clark to share the job of
leading the journey. Jefferson wanted to
find a water route across the U.S. the two
captains gathered 45 men for the journey
they called their group, “Corps of
Discovery.”
 One
of the men in the group was married to a
young girl from the Shoshone tribe, named
Sacagawea. Sacagawea helped stop any
problems between the Americans and the
native Americans during the journey. Lewis
and Clark wrote about the land formations
they passed by, and how the countryside
looked, and the native Americans they met.
Plus, they sketched and described many new
kinds of plants and animals.
 During
more than two years of travel, the
corps of discovery found out that there
wasn’t a water route across the United
States. The tall rocky mountains were
blocking it. The amazing discoveries they
made, made them a little less
disappointed.

Strong young men packed some things and went to the
wilderness. These were the mountain men looking for an
adventure and gold. The men had a hard life. Things
like starvation, dehydration, burning heat, freezing cold,
animal attacks, and unfriendly native Americans
happened in the life of a mountain man. In summer time
mountain men would go to the summer festivals to sell
furs, get supplies, and tell their stories of adventure. Most
of these mountain men became legends because of their
bravery. The brave explorers and mountain men gave
life to some of the most exciting stories in American
history.
By: Alexis Birkhimer
Jim Bridger was another of the famous mountain
men, who wandered in the West in search or furs
and, of course, excitement. On one of his
explorations, Jim Bridger was following the Bear
River path in Utah to find where it emptied. When
the river came to its end, Bridger was standing on
a sandy shore looking upon a big sea of blue water.
Sea gulls circled him overhead and a scent of the
sea was drifting along in the air. He scooped up
some water and took a sip of that salty, but
refreshing water.
He spat it out again. The water was so salty
that he was amazed by it! He decided he
had reached the shore of the Pacific
Ocean. He thought to himself, “This must
be an inlet of that ocean. It must reach
farther inland that anyone has ever
imagined!”
Bridger rushed to tell everybody that he
had walked on the shore of the Pacific
Ocean, yet they scoffed at his report. This
was simply another one of Bridger’s “Tall
Tales”. For the Pacific Ocean was
hundreds of miles away to the west
Bridger only found a large lake.
Everyone knew that lakes were fresh
water, not salty water.
Today, we know that the Great Salt Lake is
very real indeed. Next to it sets a
modern city. Seagulls fly above the salty,
blue water of Great Salt Lake.
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