This online quiz on the early American mountain men and gold prospectors entitled the Mountain Man Quiz enables 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students to test themselves on the first American pioneers and the mountain man, fur trader and gold rush prospector who flocked to California in 1849.
Use the Mountain Men Quiz to test your knowledge of the true mountain men who roamed America's western mountain ranges trapping animals for their valuable pelts; and the adventurous gold seekers, who in 1849 flocked to California and other points west in search of fortune. Th Mountain Man quiz will also test your knowledge about the thrill of the yearly rendezvous and the exhilaration of a gold strike, and the desperation these adventurers felt when nature didn't cooperate with their dreams.