Transcript The Mountain Men in Utah

The Mountain Men in
Utah
Unit 3: Chapter 4
The Great Encounter
Today we will learn…
• History Objective –
We will create a map
to show where the
explorers traveled
in Utah.
• Language Objective We will use
information that we
have heard, seen,
and read to create our
map and timeline.
• Behavior Objective – Work Ethic: As we create
our maps, listen and stay on task.
This is a no gum class.
Please dispose of it
properly!
Bell Activity
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?
Maps & History
• Maps are an
important part of
understanding history.
• Historical maps are
primary sources that
give information about
the past.
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.
Let’s 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.
Juan Rivera’s Journey
• Our book does not trace Juan Rivera’s
route through Utah.
• However, we can reconstruct it ourselves
using primary sources and modern maps.
It isn’t 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.
Let’s 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mountain
Men 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.
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.