epub |eng | 2017-10-26 | Author:Pamela Brunskill

epub |eng | 2002-12-15 | Author:Barbara Gowan & Katherine Larson

Q “Puk–kwaw–cah” sings the Gambel’s Quail (Callipepla gambelii) from its perch on the mesquite tree branch. The plump bird with the black, curved plume on its chestnut–colored head nests on ...

epub |eng | | Author:Denise Brennan-Nelson

Answer: Mackinac Bridge Riddle 7 This reptile has a painted shell; slow on land, swims water well. Answer: Painted Turtle Riddle 8 Five are “Great,” but that’s not all—thousands more ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Katy S. Duffield

Central Pacific officials knew they had to do something. With so few workers, they would get little accomplished, and that meant little money would be made. Charles Crocker, one of ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Don Lago

In the 1880s, prospectors combed the Grand Canyon for mineral wealth, but few prospectors made any profit. In the 1880s, prospectors began combing the canyon for minerals. In 1889, railroad ...

epub |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Mary Ann McCabe Riehle & Laura J. Bryant

O Olympian Mary Lou Retton, born in Fairmont, West Virginia, brought home the gold, silver, and bronze from the 1984 Olympic Games. She was the first American woman to win ...

epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Mary Ann McCabe Riehle & Wes Burgiss

P Pleasant Hill preserves the customs and lifestyle of a community of people known as the Shakers. They got their name from the trembling done during prayers. The Shakers arrived ...

epub |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:Marcia Schonberg & Bruce Langton

P Ohio is known as “The Mother of Presidents” because it has sent more men to the White House than any other state. The first president from Ohio was our ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Jules Heller

But luck was still not on his side. Remember how Seward was recovering from a broken jaw? His doctor had made a metal and leather brace for his chin to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Cantillo

Mission San Francisco Solano had different areas for the church, the priests, and the neophytes, as well as orchards, farms, and a cemetery on its grounds, as depicted in the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeannette Buckley

The first stone was put in place in 1797. Isidro Aguilar, a master stonemason, arrived from New Spain in 1799 to make sure the new church would be strong and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeannette Buckley

finishing the mission As the mission's neophyte population grew to its peak (832 inhabitants) in the early 1800s, so did the mission complex. Construction ended in 1819, at which time ...

epub |eng | | Author:Madeline Stevens

October 1800 was a particularly bad month at Mission San Juan Bautista. Those living at the mission reported six earthquakes a day for nineteen days. All of the mission buildings ...

epub |eng | | Author:Pam Flowers

“Gotcha!” Ellie’s silliness always made Pam laugh. She liked having a fun partner on the Trail. In the mountains of Virginia, January brought snow. Ellie was excited to see big ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeannette Buckley

In the 1800s, Fray Peyri allowed smaller sister missions called asistencias, as well as villages called rancherias, to be built on grassland a few miles away. Built by and for ...