Crossroads America | Cable Forest Lodge Library

Author:

Rossi, Ann
Rosen, Daniel
Halpern, Monica
Supples, Kevin

1. Cultures collide: Native Americans and Europeans, 1492-1700

Author:

Rossi, Ann

2. Independence now: the American Revolution, 1763-1783

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Rosen, Daniel

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1 of 1	Spooner Juvenile Nonfiction	E CULTURE 973.3 ROS

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2004

hc 40 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.

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Presents an illustrated history of the main events of the American Revolution.

3. Railroad fever: building the Transcontinental Railroad, 1830-1870

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Halpern, Monica

Cable Juvenile Nonfiction

J 385.09 HAL

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[2004]	National Geographic	40 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.	On Shelf Cable Juvenile Nonfiction J 385.09 HAL	More Info

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Presents a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and its effects on American life. By the 1840s, daring Americans were trickling westward to begin a new life in the great wide open. When gold was discovered in 1848, the promise of riches drew people by the thousands out to California. But the journey was slow and dangerous, since the best ways of travelling were by wagon and on foot. During the "railroad fever" of the 1830s, thousands...