Oregon Trail Puzzle

Clues Across:
3. Person who first mapped the Oregon Trail.
6. Families were not able to carry enough of this for a journey of several months.
7. Route through the mountains.
8. The name of the valley in Oregon where many of the immigrants settled.
10. Person who teaches religious beliefs to people in a foreign or distant land.
12. Because the journey was ____ , families traveled together.
13. Col. William ____ was Idaho's first homesteader.

Clues Down:
1. ____ ____ was the first trading post Oregon Trail immigrants saw in Idaho.
2. When immigrants reached the site of the present-day town of Glenns Ferry, Idaho, they had to ____ the Snake River if they wanted to get to the other side.
4. ____ ____ would rendezvous and trade furs for the supplies they needed.
5. Lapwai and Cataldo were sites of two early Idaho ____.
9. The European country that claimed Oregon was ____.
11. ____ made the Idaho desert bloom.

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