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traveling across the United States is pretty easy cars buses trains and planes can carry us from one place to another in almost no time at all but if you early 1800s none of these forms of transportation existed instead people who wanted to travel across the country had to make difficult Journeys that took months and cost some people their lives why would people make such difficult and dangerous Journeys and who were the leaders who got it the Spanish it migrated to and settled in California in the 1700s and after Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821 Mexican settlements group before long many people living in the eastern United States headed west and began to settle in California as well they started to migrate to move from one place to another some people even came to California from Europe by immigrating to the United States or coming into another country to live why did so many people leave their homes and their homelands to move to California some sort Farmland other sort Goods that they could trade and still others just wanted to explore the land along North America's West Coast as more people migrated and immigrated to California the population began to expand or grow larger most of the settlers who migrated to California came from the East Coast at this time traveling from the East Coast the west coast of North America was difficult and dangerous there are only two ways to go one way was the travel by ship settlers could I the sail around Cape Horn orange that took up to 8 months to complete what was the cross the Isthmus of Panama a narrow strip of land that separated the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans the other way was to travel over land on foot or in wagons befall at one of several drops most often the California Trail or the Santa Fe Trail to the Old Spanish Trail you're going to trip to Missouri California took about 6 months and passed over rivers mountains and deserts pictures that most Travelers had only dreamed of scene early explorers made Overland Journey as possible but mapping the Western areas of North America follow me the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to explore the Western lands that the you it states that just a game to prove the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and 1805 they reach the Pacific Ocean William Clark do maps of their route in 1826 Jedediah Smith that a group of American trap is West through the Mojave Desert to California and 1841 John Bidwell let the first wagon train from the East to California that's Ralph the early 1840s another adventurer fancy Fremont expo at the Far West from his travels maps of this region were created for the u.s. government Brown 1850 and African American guy don't is James beckwourth discovered what is now known as Beck North pass which branch doll from the California Trail and headed north and west the maps that resulted from the journeys of these explorers and settlers and the trails at they blazed and able to migrate West in ever increasing numbers and is the number of settlers from the East increased Mexico's control of the region decreased in 1845 the last Mexican Governor sent to California from Mexico City stepped down he was replaced hello call Don churro for ranch owner Linda Pio Pico whose family had come to California from Mexico in 1775 Pico was the last governor of Mexican California when is Farmland coast and Forest attracted many settlers willing to risk the high seas all the hot deserts to Journey Westward for these explorers and Pioneers the journeys and their Feud have they come apart to California's glorious past

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