Westward Movement/Gold Rush "Relate Across Time" Links

Covered Wagons!

http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/wagons.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/trailofthe49ers/wagons.htm

Painting of covered wagon http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/cox_corr/w_exp/covered.htm

The Oregon Trail!

One-stop surfing on the 'Trail at this site! http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html

FAQs about the Oregon Trail: http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/faq.html

Costs to Get "Outfitted" for the Oregon Trail: http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/outfit.html

Another One-stop Surf Site! http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/histhome.html

Graph of Numbers for Oregon Trail Pioneers http://www.pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/teacher/popcharts.html

Oregon Trail Timeline: http://www.pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/teacher/timeline.html

Oregon Trail http://www.oregontrailcenter.org/t_oregon.shtml

Oregon Trail Links Page: http://www.over-land.com/trore.html

HOW DID THE PIONEERS WRITE?

Learn how to decipher old-time writing! http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html

WHAT WORDS DID THE PIONEERS USE (THAT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT FROM TODAY)?
http://celticfringe.net/vocab.htm

WHAT DID THE PIONEERS WRITE IN THEIR DIARIES?
Read the diaries of the Pioneers! It's okay! You won't get in trouble! http://www.over-land.com/diaries.html

Clipper Ships!

http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/

SHIP OF GOLD! S.S. CENTRAL AMERICA! http://www.sscentralamerica.com/history.html

Gold Rush Smorgsaboard of Information

Gold Rush Chronicles http://comspark.com/chronicles/

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listcalifornme.html

http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/fever01.html

http://www.goldrush1849.com/thewaywest.html

Timeline of events during years preceding the finding of gold at Sutter's Mill http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/IGUIDE/or-time.htm

The Book the Donner Party Should Not Have Read? THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO OREGON AND CALIFORNIA http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/IGUIDE/oregon-t.htm

Check here to see the relationship between Hastings and the Donner Party! http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/IGUIDE/or-intro.htm

What does "Seeing the Elephant" mean?

http://www.goldrush.com/~joann/elephant.htm

Gold Prospectors

http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/cox_corr/w_exp/gold.htm

Pony Express

http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/cox_corr/w_exp/pony.htm

Railroad

The Golden Spike! http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/cox_corr/w_exp/golden.htm