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PPT
Northern Arizona University

Northern Arizona University: Voices From the Trading Post

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers a series of slideshows, oral histories, and trade goods of the Navajo people from 1860 to the present.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Events in the West: 1800 1820

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site on the development and history of the American West. In timeline fashion, this page details the events leading up to the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It continues with information about...
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Handout
Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company: Sir George Simpson

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comic strip biography, George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, falls ill and is visited by his dead cousin Thomas' ghost. Thomas says that George has much to account for and takes him on a life journey of images...
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Primary
Other

Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Source Documents: Journal of John Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a diary of two and a half months of travels by John Work as he went from one fur trading post to another in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s.