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 Tradebooks:

Andrist, Ralph K.  The California Gold Rush.  Troll Associates, American Heritage Junior Library.

Dolan, Edward, F.  Beyond the Frontier.  Benchmark Books, 2000.

Edward White, Stewart The Forty-Niners: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918

Fradin, Dennis B. California in Words and Pictures. Illus. by Robert Ulm. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1977.

Grunwald, Henry Anatole, ed. The Forty-Niners. Alexandria, VI: Time-Life Books, 1974.

Havighurst, Walter .The California Gold Rush: New York: Franklin Watts, Inc, 1962

Hester, Sallie.  A Covered Wagon Girl.  Blue Earth Books, Capstone Pub., 2000.

Hicks, Peter.  You Wouldn’t Want to Live in a Wild West Town.  The Salariya Book Company Ltd, 2002.

Jacobs Altman, Linda. Celebrate the States: California. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1997.

Kalman, Bobbie.  Pioneer Life from A to Z.  Crabtree Pub. Co., 1998.

Kalman, Bobbie and Kate Calder. Life of a Miner. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2000.

Ketchum, Liza. The Gold Rush. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1996.

Krensky, Stephen. Striking it Rich: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Lagal, Roy.  Gold Panning is Easy: Dallas, Texas: Yaquinto Printing, 1976

Lake, A.I. Gold Fever. Illus. by Luciano Lazzarino. Vero Beach, Florida: Rourke Publications, Inc., 1990.

Morley, Jaqueline.  You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Pioneer.  The Salariya Book Company Ltd, 2002.

Schanzer, Rosalyn. Gold Fever!: Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999

Stanley, Jerry. Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California. New York: Crown Publishers, 2000.

Stewart, George R.  The Pioneers Go West.  Landmark Books, Random House, 1982.  

World Book.  The American West.  World Book Inc., 1997.

Young, Bob and Jan. The 49’ers, the Story of the California Gold Rush: New York: Julian Messner, 1966

Books for Casual Reading:

Bauer , Max  Precious Stones: New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1968

Petralia , Joseph F.  Gold! Gold!:  San Francisco: Sierra Trading Post, 1980

Wilson Kenna, Gail. Along the Gold Rush Trail. Illus. by Chris Edwards. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press, 1982. 

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www.sfmuseum.org

www.californiahistory.org

http://claim.goldrush.com

http://cohort.educ.csus.edu/riolinda1/ventura/goldrush/

http://www.huntington.org/Education/GoldRush/Entrance/lesson.html#Grades%207-12

http://www.proteacher.com/

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html

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