I must admit that when I was a child and was first learning about the history of our great country and our Native Americans I wasn’t very interested at all. Sure I really liked the way they dressed and the war paint they wore. I even liked making Native American type crafts in our arts [...]
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How I Made Studying Native American Culture at Home an Adventure
Posted by admin on January 15th, 2011
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Gold Mining in American West During the Gold Rush
Posted by admin on January 4th, 2011
One of the greatest adventures of human history includes the American Gold Rush. Young men and women left their homes in search of gold. These people left in 1849, and hence, were labeled as the forty-niners. It was an entirely different story when these people reached California. The conditions were so bad that the people [...]
Route 66 – The Main Street of America
Posted by admin on December 26th, 2010
Route 66 first entered the general public conscience in 1939 when California writer John Steinbeck published his novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, detailing the westward migration of Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl farmers to California’s San Joaquin Valley. During the story, he refers to Route 66 as the “Mother Road”, a nickname it still has today. When [...]