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There is a lot to learn from art. This teacher's guide provides you with extensive background information, activities, and a scripted commentary to accompany a slide show on French artists in California during the Gold Rush Period. The...

Learn about the California Gold Rush from an institution that has been in place since the early days of the American West: Wells Fargo History Museum. From domain-specific vocabulary review to group research projects, an expansive packet...

Fourth graders read about the era in their history books, write in their journals revolving around the Gold Rush, making crafts such as newspapers, and also play the part of the Forty-niners.

This first-person account by John Bidwell and his dealings with John Fremont in California.

This site from the Museum of San Francisco provides a list of links to events that happened in San Francisco from 1846-1864 including many links about the Gold Rush.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate a central historical question. For this investigation, students contextualize President Theodore Roosevelt's turn-of-the-century speeches and letters...

This site contains information on the dramatic impact of the California Gold Rush. From "The History of California," published in 1897.

Excellent overview of the Chinese experience in California complete with historical photos and primary documents. Site provides information on San Francisco's Chinatown, the anti-Chinese Movement, and Chinese laborers.

A site dedicated to the cable car: history, rider's guide, cable car barn, and related links.

Interactive website, with videos, aerial views, photographs, and slideshows, documents the actions taken to replace and stabilize portions of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge against future seismic activity.