epub |eng | | Author:Sofia Nuñes

In 1798, more neophytes escaped, leaving only about thirty-five at the mission. The friars were distraught. The mission's lands were overflowing with water. The livestock were dying. To top it ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:U'ilani Goldsberry

P Polynesian voyagers, without the aid of a compass, navigated over 2,000 miles of open ocean nearly 1,000 years before Columbus. Relying on the migratory patterns of sea birds, varied ...

epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Eileen Cameron

P The Pinelands in south Jersey, also known as the Pine Barrens, covers over a million acres of wilderness with forests, cedar swamps and huge underground water sources or aquifers. ...

epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Eleanor Coerr

O On May 27, 1987, Nevada adopted the black opal as our state precious gemstone. The Virgin Valley is the only place in North America where such spectacular opals are ...

epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Helen Foster James & Neecy Twinem

O Georgia O’Keeffe was a talented artist. She fell in love with New Mexico on her first visit and said it gave her inspiration. Soon she moved to New Mexico ...

epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Cynthia Furlong Reynolds

N Just as 50 states form our nation, many Native American tribes together formed the great Algonquin nation. In Vermont, the Abenaki, Penacook, and Mahican peoples roamed the forests until ...

epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Patricia A. Pierce

O Iowa has never specified what kind of oak is its official state tree, but the state’s most common oaks are the white oak and the bur oak. Oaks are ...

epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Carol Crane

P The palmetto tree is also called the sabal or cabbage palm. The trees played an important part in the Revolutionary War. Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan’s Island, was made of ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Carol Crane

P In the 1680s William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania and Delaware and found that Native Americans were growing peaches. The climate and growing season were just right to make peaches ...

epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Linda Holt Ayriss

N On July 17, 1897, the steamboat Portland sailed into Seattle harbor with two tons of gold and news of a gold strike. Gold was found on the small Klondike ...

epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Michael Roydon

O The Oregon Trail was the largest voluntary human migration in history, bringing over 300,000 pioneers to the western frontier during the 1800s. It was called “Oregon Fever.” Starting in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sofia Nuñes

Next to the church was a cemetery. And beside it, on one side of the square, stood the friars' rooms, offices, living and guest quarters, and a monjerio. Workshops, barns, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jack Connelly

Neophytes built an irrigation system that brought water to the mission. water and irrigation At Mission Santa Barbara the neophytes were responsible for building systems that would bring water from ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Phyllis J. Perry

Chapter 8 Early Gold, Silver, and Coal Mining in Colorado The 49ers, rushing to the goldfields of California, ignored Colorado as they followed the various trails from Independence, Missouri, to ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:Julie Murray

California Quails California quails live in the western US. They live in low brush areas. Some live in busy cities. They are round-shaped birds. Females are brownish gray in color. ...