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Frontier Pathways
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Segment 2: El Pueblo
Standards-Based Themes: Multicultural Influences, Settlement and Economics
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Summary
The beauty and the promise of the land drew a variety of people to it. Joining the Native Americans were mountain men, traders and trappers, Spanish settlers, and settlers from the eastern United States. Attempts to settle the land were fraught with difficulty, because there was little rainfall, and some settlers gave up. El Pueblo, one settlement that did survive, was a thriving trading post modeled on Bent’s Fort on the Santa Fe Trail. But the mere presence of the trading post was a threat to the Native American way of life. Eventually, El Pueblo succumbed to the dangers of the area when almost all of its inhabitants were killed during a Ute raid. Despite these setbacks, interest in the land continued and people kept coming to try their hand in this beautiful but difficult landscape.
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Vocabulary
confluence
lifeline
passageway
trailblazer
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Pre-Viewing Focus
The People
- What different groups of people lived in this area?
The Landscape
- What three things made the Arkansas River so important to the people who came to live in this area?
- What was the location of El Pueblo Trading Post?
The Trading Post
- What groups of people came to El Pueblo Trading Post?
- What did they do there?
- What happened when the Utes attacked El Pueblo?
- For how many years did El Pueblo exist?
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Post-Viewing Discussion
The Trading Post
- How could a trading post encourage people to settle the area of Frontier Pathways?
- What is the difference between a trading post and a settlement? Which one appeals to you more?
- Why would a trading post be threatening to the Utes?
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