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Trail to California and The Trail to Utah | Frontier Children
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Trail to California and The
Trail to Utah
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- "California as I Saw It: First-Person
Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900" consists
of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting
the
formative era of California's history through eyewitness
accounts. This Library of Congress collection covers the dramatic
decades between the Gold Rush
and the turn of the twentieth century. It captures the
pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans and
the diverse
peoples who had preceded them; the transformation of the
land by mining, ranching, agriculture, and urban development;
the
often-turbulent growth of communities and cities; and California's
emergence as both a state and a place of uniquely American
dreams.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
- Travel and Westward Expansion offers travellers’
impressions of the Western territories that were incorporated
into the nation during the course of the century. Some of these
books offer glimpses—seldom unprejudiced—of the life and struggles
and
resistance of the native peoples who already inhabited those
lands and for whom the American presence was almost invariably
a continuing catastrophe. In the same era, the growth of recreational
tourism ensured that throughout the nation soldiers, settlers,
and railroad crews would soon be followed by growing numbers
of curious travellers, eager to trace a national history in
the lineaments of the land, discovering for themselves a country
that seemed at once both familiar and exotic, ancient and new.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/mncsptravel.html
Lesson Plans
- Pioneers
on the Trail from the National Park Service
Introduction | Grades
1-3 | Grades
4-6 (PDF Format)
Travel over prairies, across rivers and through mountains
in a covered wagon. Learn about the early pioneers who
often traveled
as many as 2,000 miles to the "promised land" of
Oregon and California in search of land or gold.
- Lewis and Clark Expedition from the National
Park Service
Introduction | Grades
3-5 | Grades 7-8 (PDF Format)
Travel a wild and uncharted West with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Learn about the people, animals and lands encountered by these
fearless explorers.
- Curriculum Materials about the Lewis and Clark Expedition
and the Louisiana Purchase from the National
Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/CurriculumGuideMain.htm
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