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Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, Colonel Henry Leavenworth advanced up the river with how many companies?


3. Where did the Hudson's Bay Company monopolize all trade with the Indians?

4. How many Crow squaws guarded Joseph Meek?


Short Essay Questions

1. As Jim Bridger got older what health problems did he develop?

2. In Chapter 27, what did Jim Bridger know the Cheyenne chief was after?


4. What was Jim Bridger's motto in Chapter 21?

5. In Chapter 4, what two traits were to be respected among the Indians?

6. What were some of the mistakes that tourists made that stopped by Fort Bridger?


8. In Chapter 16, Bridger weny out with Kit Carson in the spring to what places?

9. Why did Joseph Meek shoot a young brave in Chapter 12?

10. Why did the Crow chief come into Bridger's camp with forty men to request a truce?

Essay Topics

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Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 14 Jim Bridger is quoted as saying, "If you betray timidity or indecision, you convert them from that moment into insidious and dangerous enemies." Who was Bridger referring to in this statement, and what did he mean?

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