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Huntington Library: Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush

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A rich site on the California gold rush, 1848-1858. An online exhibit traces the gold rush using primary sources, a teacher page gives lesson plans from 4-12 and a kid's page offers further online adventures. Takes a long time to load.

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Concepts
miners, california history
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Additional Tags
49ers, forty-niners, gold country, gold discovery, miners' daily life, mining techniques, sluice, california gold rush, gold rush, gold fever, john sutter, sutter
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)