The Mountain Men in Utah

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The Mountain Men in Utah

• Unit 3 Chapter 4The Great Encounter

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Today we will learn

• History Objective We will create a map to
  show where the explorers traveled in Utah.
• Behavior Objective Work Ethic As we create our
  maps, listen and stay on task.

• Language Objective - We will use information that
  we have heard, seen, and read to create our map
  and timeline.

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Bell Activity
This is a no gum class. Please dispose of it
properly!

• Take out all of the papers from this chapter and
  get them organized.
• Study Guide packet
• Spanish and Utah notes (on the back of which
  should be your Mountain Men notes)
• We Shall Remain Video guide short paragraphs
• Five Tribes of Utah (back timeline)
• Staple these together. Then turn to your map.
• Where should your backpack be?

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Maps History

• Maps are an important part of understanding
  history.
• Historical maps are primary sources that give
  information about the past.

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Maps History

• Historians in turn create maps to help them
  understand topics in history.
• Historians use other primary sources to create
  maps to help us understand the past.

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Lets try adding detail to our maps of the five
tribes of Utah.
Look for landmarks on your map that you can use
to help you put your path in the right place. The
path of the expedition came close to the base of
the Uinta mountains. They follow the edge of
the Tushar mountains to go South.
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Juan Riveras Journey

• Our book does not trace Juan Riveras route
  through Utah.
• However, we can reconstruct it ourselves using
  primary sources and modern maps.

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It isnt easy to make a map without a guide.

• Following the La Plata northward, the party
  passed into the Dolores River drainage, moving to
  the site of Dove Creek, Colorado.
• After leaving the Dolores River, they ventured
  into unknown country. Crossing into Utah
  northeast of Monticello, most likely on October
  6, 1765, they traveled into the Lisbon Valley.
• Continuing northwestward, they skirted the
  southwestern base of the La Sal Mountains and
  pushed into Spanish Valley, which flows toward
  the present site of Moab.
• There they discovered an excellent ford of the
  broad, deep Colorado. The explorers apparently
  followed the Colorado upstream, perhaps as far as
  the Gunnison and the Uncompahgre in western
  Colorado, probably in search of Lake Copala.

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Lets use the history and a modern maps to guide
us.

• Following the La Plata northward, the party
  passed into the Dolores River drainage, moving to
  the site of Dove Creek, Colorado.

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Entering Utah

• After leaving the Dolores River, they ventured
  into unknown country. Crossing into Utah
  northeast of Monticello, most likely on October
  6, 1765, they traveled into the Lisbon Valley.

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Traveling through Utah

• Continuing northwestward, they skirted the
  southwestern base of the La Sal Mountains and
  pushed into Spanish Valley, which flows toward
  the present site of Moab.
• The explorers apparently followed the Colorado
  upstream out of Utah.

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A decade later, Dominguez and Escalante travel
through Utah

• Turn to page 70 to see where this trail went
  through Utah.
• Add it to your map.

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These two Spanish expeditions paved the way for
the Old Spanish Trail

• Turn to page 78 to see where this trail went
  through Utah.
• Add it to your map.

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MountainMen Trails

• The Mountain Men also blazed trails through Utah.
• Their knowledge of the land helped future
  settlers understand where they were.
• Look at page 74 for more details.

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Always include a key!

• Your map needs to have a key that others can use
  to read it.
• Lets make a key for our maps in the upper right
  corner.
• It should include the name of the trail and when
  it was in use.