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[Detail] A family of emigrants entering the South Loup Valley

Lesson Preparation

Materials

• Primary Source Analysis Tool

Resources

• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1930-1940
• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
• "California As I saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
• The Northern Great Plains
• Map Collections
• Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1682-1912
• Pioneering the Upper Mid West: Books from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
• History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images

• Student Role Pages
  • Fur Trader
  • Pioneer Family
  • Native American
  • Explorer
  • Gold Miner

• Teacher's Guide: Analyzing Primary Sources
• Teacher's Guide: Analyzing Maps