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Steam Engine
An extraordinarily rich collection of photos, stereographs, engravings, maps, and documents. Many 19th century accounts of building and traveling on the railroad, plus travel guides and government documents.
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Language Guide: El Recorrido Por Tierra
Travel by land is the focus of these interactive vocabulary words. Learners will hear the correct Spanish pronunciation as the mouse is moved over each illustration.
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Language Guide: El Recorrido Por Tierra
Travel by land is the focus of these interactive vocabulary words. Learners will hear the correct Spanish pronunciation as the mouse is moved over each illustration.
European Union
Europarl: The Webserver of the Eu Parliament
Official site of the European parliament in Strassburg.
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Oregon California Trails Association: Historic Trails Learning Center
Information portal for the organization that oversees the preservation of the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, the Applegate Trail, and the Mormon Trail.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Leonardo and His Drawings
Born near the town of Vinci in 1452, Leonardo trained in the Florentine workshop of Andrea Verrocchio (1435-88). His first masterpiece was the unfinished Adoration of the Magi (1481, Uffizi, Florence). In 1481-2 he traveled to Milan to...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: On to White Rock: A Building's Journey Through Time
The history of the train station in White Rock, B.C.is profiled. It thrived during the railway era welcoming travelers to its small community. After the railway closed, the landmark building lived on as the White Rock Museum & Archives.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Pioneer Families [Pdf]
"Pioneer Families" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about pioneers who traveled west in wagon trains, the hardships they faced, and how they worked together to build communities. It is followed by questions which require...
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: Rene Richard: Painter of the North
Rene Richard was a native of Switzerland who worked as a trapper and hunter to avoid the hardships of farming life that his family endured. He came to appreciate Alberta's north and went to France to train as an artist. When he returned,...
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Semester at Sea
Semester at Sea is designed to be a global semester in your undergraduate career. As academic sponsor of the program, the University of Pittsburgh grants academic credit for participation.
Sacramento Bee
Gold Rush: On Your Mark, Get Set, Gold
This CalGoldRush.com site is an article that discusses where people came from, as well as the number of people involved in the California gold rush. The article focuses on the massive migration to California.
San Diego State University
Sdsu College of Education: Westward Movement
A group of organized lessons provides ideas for teachers when planning a unit on westward expansion in the US. Some activities include planning what to pack in your wagon, learning what obstacles were faced, mapping, and more.
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History; Crossing the Plains, 1865
Article offers the diaries of Sarah Raymond as she treks across the Great Plains. Describes the many hardships encountered on this long journey.
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Shaw Guides: Learning Vacation & Creative Career Program
There are thousands of learning vacations and fun career programs here to choose from. What would you like to learn about?
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Bureau of Land Management: Basic Facts About the Oregon Trail
Learn basic facts about the Oregon Trail and the early pioneers who used it in their move West.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Transportation Improvements in the 1920s
When World War I ended in 1918 and the troops came home, folks felt optimistic about the future and eager to get on with their lives. This optimism led to an extraordinary decade that brought major changes in the way citizens traveled by...
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Transit People: Early Transportation
Today we use cars, trains, airplanes and boats to travel around our world. But it hasn't always been this easy. Learn about the many different ways people have traveled in the past.
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Sir Francis Drake
Read about Sir Francis Drake's attacks on the Spanish treasure ships and "silver trains" in the Caribbean and Central America.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Physical, Political, and Economic Asia, 1872
A map of Asia from 1872, showing physical features including mountain systems, deserts, lakes, rivers with direction of flow, coastal features, and ocean currents, political boundaries and foreign possessions at the time, and commercial...
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Mp 0000.158.7
Have you ever travelled across Canada by train?Here's your chance to take a virtual tour using photographs from all corners of Canada as your scenic train window! Different 'viewing' formats are available.
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Mp 0000.158.8
Have you ever travelled across Canada by train?Here's your chance to take a virtual tour using photographs from all corners of Canada as your scenic train window! Different 'viewing' formats are available.
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