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This guide will introduce you to a variety of local, state, and federal resources, as well as information on elections and access to government documents.
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes adventures and disasters in the lives of people who rushed to the gold mines of California in 1848 and explains how this event sparked the state's development.
11) The gold rush
Author
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Discusses the California gold rush including the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848; the migration of people to California; life in California's mining camps and boom towns; and the crime, racism, and frontier justice that followed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Examines the thrills and disappointments of the nineteenth-century rush for gold in California, during which people abandoned their jobs and homes and headed west in hopes of becoming rich.
14) Gold fever!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from the first discovery at Sutter's Mill to the vast influx of prospectors and others out to seek their fortune
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes, in illustrations and easy text, how gold was discovered in California, how miners traveled to the gold fields, how they sought gold or found riches other ways, and their impact on California.
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