1. Name articles of dress that indicate material availability and purpose for certain Anglo, Native American, and Mexican people groups in the 1840s living in the Borderlands? 2. Give reasons for these differences. Objective Identify and analyze period clothing from the 1840s as worn by various cultural groups in the southern Great Plains. Background At about fourteen years of age, Lewis H. Garrard, read John C. Fremont’s Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains , an account published in U.S. newspapers in 1843. Fremont’s descriptive account enticed Lewis to venture West by hi Duration: 60 Minutes.