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CALIFORNIA HISTORY




Mining Camps
http://www.malakoff.com/tcgctmc.htm
Gold Rush Entrepreneurs:
Sam Brannan - general store
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_brannan.html
General William T. Sherman - banking
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sherman.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman
John Plankinton & Philip Danforth Armour - food services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Danforth_Armour
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_armour.html
http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/meat_hof/1995/plankinton.htm
Levi Strauss - denim
http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventors/a/Levi_Strauss.htm
Leland Standford - The Big Four The Pacific Railroad
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Leland_Stanford.aspx
Women of the Gold Rush
http://www.irwinator.com/126/wdoc79.htm
http://www.goldrush.com/~joann/
Mary Jane Megquier - ran a boarding house and wrote famous letters; servant to wealthier women
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Megquier
http://imet.csus.edu/imet3/odell/gold_rush/characters/mjmegquier.html
http://www.michaellamarr.com/womenofgr.html
Lola Montez - actress
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390847/Lola-Montez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Montez
http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/montez.html
Lotta Crabtree - child dancer
http://www.nevadacountygold.com/about/history-western-nevco/lotta-crabtree
The Evolution of Gold Mining: http://www.calgoldrush.com/graphics/evolution.html 
Brief History of the CA Gold Rush: http://ceres.ca.gov/ceres/calweb/geology/goldrush.html
Kid's Life on the Oregon Trail:
http://www.blm.gov/or/oregontrail/education-kids-trail.php
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