The Mountain Men in Utah

1. The Mountain Men in Utah Unit 3: Chapter 4The Great Encounter

2. 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. Today we will learn…

3. 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?

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

15. 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.

17. 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.

19. 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.

26. 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.