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Item Nr: B 90912 Title: Pathways of America/California Gold Rush Trail
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hatch, Lynda
Length: 92 Prod/Pub: Good Apple
Copyright: 1994 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Social Studies activity book for grades 4-8. Covers the cross-country journey the emigrants and Forty-Niners faced as they traveled from the Missouri River to the Sacramento Valley and mining camps in California. The California Trail followed the Oregon Trail until past Fort Bridger, and then several trail routes were available. Book concentrates on the routes and locations past Fort Bridger. Activities are on reproducible pages. Skills: map reading, research, writing, synthesizing information.

  Subjects:
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  243 - CALIFORNIA
  563 - GOLD
  1401 - HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
  1364 - MIDDLE SCHOOL/SCHOOLS
  536 - PIONEER AND FRONTIER LIFE/PIONEERS
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1008 - SOCIAL STUDIES--STUDY & TEACHING
  1116 - U.S.--HISTORY--1815-1865
  1167 - WEST, THE