SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE John A. Stone, before 1858

As you listen, point out features in the painting that the song mentions.

Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, an oil painting on canvas by Emanuel Leutze from about 1861, is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

WESTWARD HO! 1800 – 1850

Thousands followed the cry “Westward Ho!”

Western frontier – lure of new land, new opportunities, a new start

ACTIVITY 3 scene mini-drama 6 groups of western settlers

Explorers Californios Mountain men Missionaries Pioneer women Mormons

ROLES Director Script Manager Props Manager Stage Manager

STEPS Learn about your group

Look at picture, review reading material Brainstorm ideas and create 3

sceneboards Scene 1: Why the group moved west Scene 2: Hardships the group faced Scene 3: Legacies the group left

Write the script Prepare materials Rehearse

MINI DRAMA IMAGES

Image 1: Explorers Image 2: Californios Image 3: Mountain Men Image 4: Missionaries Image 5: Pioneer Women Image 6: Mormon Pioneers

Lewis and Clark at Three Forks. Edgar S. Paxson. Courtesy of the Montana Historical Society.

Image 1: Explorers

Hacendado y Su Mayordomo (“The Landowner and His Foreman”)

Image 2: Californios

Frederic Remington (1861–1909), The Mountain Man, 1903

Image 3: Mountain Men

Image 4: Pioneer Missionaries

Image 5: Pioneer Women

Emigrants Crossing the Plains. Hand Colored steel engraving by Henry Bryan Hall after a drawing by Felix Octavius Carr Darley. Published by D. Appleton & Company, 1869.

Image 6: Mormon Pioneers