California History for Kids: Missions, Miners, and Moviemakers in the Golden State- Includes 21 Activities Donner Party sufficient

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Dozens of side trips and historical highlights

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the unthinkable

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California History for Kids: Missions, Miners, and Moviemakers in the Golden State- Includes 21 Activities Donner Party sufficientThe story of California is the story of dreamersexplorers, gold miners, immigrants, ranchers, moviemakers, farmers, and everyday Americans who headed west for a fresh start. The first native inhabitants arrived 9,000 years ago, ancestors of the tribes who would greet the Spanish in the 1700s. Father Junpero Serra later established a chain of missions along the coast, expanding European and Mexican influence. But when gold was discovered in 1848, the