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COBBLESTONE MAGAZINES FOR CHILDREN - Grades
4-9
$4.95 each + P &
H These single topic
magazines add a key ingredient to the study of history - excitement! Each
contains stories, maps, drawings, photographs, puzzles and a section on things
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#1470........California:
A State History.... $4.95
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#1474........The
California Trail (OCTA's John Krizek, consulting editor
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#1465.........The Lewis and Clark
Expedition....
$4.95
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#1472..........Mountain
Men....
$4.95
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#1476..........Joseph, a Chief of the Nez
Perce....
$4.95
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#1471..........The Oregon
Trail....
$4.95
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#1474..........The Santa Fe Trail
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#1473..........The Pony
Express....
$4.95
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#1469.........The American
Buffalo....
$4.95
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#1466..........Laura Ingalls
Wilder....
$4.95
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#1467..........Gold
Rush!....
$4.95
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#1475..........The Buffalo
Soldiers....
$4.95
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#1520..........Transcontinental
Railroad...$4.95
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COLORING BOOKS:
Peter F. Copeland
The
Lewis and Clark Expedition.......#1406.....$3.95
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Story of the California
Gold Rush.....#1405.....$2.95
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Western
Pioneers...............................#1423.....$2.95
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DAILY LIFE IN A COVERED
WAGON
 Paul Erickson
paperback...........#1494...................$7.99
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This delightful book follows
the Larkin family as they head west in search of a new life. Drawing on diaries
and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual objects from the
past, it explores what life was really like on the wagon trail.
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 A PUZZLE: Westward Bound with William Henry
Jackson
100 pieces.......#1533........$8.95 + $2.00 P&H
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This is a two sided, "fits in the box puzzle". It depicts two significant
moments in the saga of Westward Expansion. One side shows Historic
Homecoming when Sacajawea is reunited with her brother and the other
side is Jackson's North Platte Valley with Chimney Rock on the horizon.
Perfect for elementary and school aged children - they can even put it together
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FINDING THE RIGHT PLACE, THE STORY
OF THE MORMON TRAIL:
An Educational Activity Book
William E. Hill (OCTA member)
Paperback.....56 pp..... 8 by 11 .....#1380....... $6.95 & $2.00 P&H
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This book is concerned with
many of the experiences of the Mormon travelers whose main route was from
Nauvoo, Illinois to the Council bluff, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska area and then
to Salt Lake City, Utah. Those experiences are based on the use of
primary source materials. Activities include map work, charts and graphs, classification,
identification, word searches, reading comprehension passages, special
BRAINBUSTER activities. An answer section is at the end of the book. |
FOLLOWING LEWIS AND CLARKâS
TRACK: The Story of the Corps of Discovery
An Educational Activity Book
William E. Hill (OCTA member)
Paperback.... 64 pp....8½ by 11.....#1608......$7.95 [Add
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This
illustrated 64-page book includes maps, word searches, charts, graphs,
and puzzles. Excerpts from the journals provide insight into one of the
most important events in the history of the United States. Ideal for
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HEADING SOUTHWEST: An Activity
Book for Children
William E. Hill and Jan Hill (OCTA members)
Paperback........#1302..................$3.95
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Thirty-two pages of fun
activities for young children (to grade 4), the variety of activities includes
coloring, dot-to-dot, map work, puzzles, word searches, recipes and more.
While completing these projects, children casually learn about the Santa
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HEADING WEST: An Activity Book
for Children
William E. Hill and Jan Hill (OCTA members)
Paperback........#1281.............$3.95
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Using the same format as Heading Southwest, these activities draw children into the history
of the families moving to Oregon and California. They plan the move and take
the trip with their pencils and crayons. |
IF YOU TRAVELED WEST IN A COVERED
WAGON
Ellen Levine, illustrated by Charles Shaw
Paperback...................#1196..................$5.95
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This small book, published
by Scholastic Magazine, answers such questions as: What was Oregon? What
was a covered wagon? How were rivers crossed without bridges? What were
children's chores? Anything left of the old trail? These and other questions
are answered in this book for 7 to 9 year olds. |
INDIAN SIGN
LANGUAGE
William Tompkins
Paperback............#1247............$3.95
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This is a book for anyone
who wants to learn or teach Indian sign language - scouts and leaders, school
teachers, camp counselors, parents and students of Indian culture. Written
instructions and diagrams of more than 525 signs developed by the Sioux and
other tribes, plus 290 photos. |
MOSES SCHALLENBERGER At Truckey's Lake,
1844-45
Charles H. Dodd (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........23 pages..........#1373..........$5.00 _
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The
Stephens-Townsend- Murphy Party, with their eleven wagons, reached Truckey's
Lake (now Donner Lake) in the Sierra Nevada on November 14th. Faced with
the difficulties of taking wagons over what now know as Donner Pass, they
decided to leave six of the wagons at the lake. Moses Schallenberger, just
a week past his eighteenth birthday, decided to stay behind to guard the
wagons and possessions being left. This is his story of that winter. |
NOT HALF THE TRUBLES: A Letter from Virginia
Reed
Charles H. Dodd, editor (OCTA
member)
Paperback..........#1374..........$6.95 _
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Virginia Reed was one
of the surviving members of the Donner Party. "Virginia's spirit shows powerfully
through her writing-it dominates her letter and it leaves us with a dramatic
picture of youth determined to embrace life." From the Introduction.
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OVERLAND MEMOIR OF CHARLES FREDERICK
TRUE:
A Teenager on the California Trail,
1859
Sally Ralston True, editor (OCTA member)
Paperback..........#1305..........$ 7.95
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When he was in his seventies,
Charles True wrote this memoir of his trip over the California Trail at the
age of sixteen. It was edited and published by his granddaughter, Sally True,
in 1966. This is a reprint, with revised preface and maps, of this engaging
and informative account of the overland emigrant experience.
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PIONEER CHILDREN ON THE JOURNEY
WEST
Dr. Emmy E. Werner (OCTA member)
Paperback..........202 pp..........#1323.............$19.00
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Between 1841 and 1865, some
forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from
the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this
book, Dr. Werner, a Development Psychologist, gives 120 of these young emigrants,
ages four to seventeen, a chance to tell the stories of their journeys west.
These documents reveal qualities we all recognize in both children and adults
- grief, pain, joy, kindness, encouragement, indifference, and even cruelty.
Through it all is the integrative power of family bonding and the life sustaining
power of hope found in these children and adults.
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READING, WRITING, AND RIDING ALONG
THE
William E. Hill (OCTA
member)
PB........#1286..... $7.95 + $2.00 P&H
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This 64 page activity book is focused around the experiences of early emigrants
and is written for middle school students and their teachers. Activities
include maps and map work, word searches, identification, making charts and
graphs, crossword puzzles, classifications and reading comprehension. Answer
section at back of book. |
SNOWBOUND: The Tragic Story of
the Donner Party
David Lavender
HB........87 pp........2 maps,
photographs.......#1364........$18.95
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The author, a noted historian
of the West and a two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, has written this
story for young people about the Donner family who chose a new shortcut to
California. Tragically, the so-called shortcut did not turn out as they expected
and their party was stranded at the end of October. |
TALES OF THE WILD
WEST
Rick Steber
These short, interesting little books are popular, easy to read and
filled with quick bits of information about the
West.
Paperback.............60 pages, illustrated...............$4.95
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#1478......Indians............$4.95
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#1479......Cowboys............$4.95
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#1480......Women............$4.95
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#1481......Children............$4.95
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#1483......Mountain
Men............$4.95
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#1485......Grandpa's
Stories............$4.95
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#1486......Pioneers............$4.95
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#1487......Campfire
Stories............$4.95
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#1488......Tall
Tales............$4.95
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#1492......Oregon Trail.......$4.95
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#1579......Grandma's
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WAGONS WEST: Trail Tales
1848
Robert Shellenberger (OCTA member)
Paperback...............#1306...........$10.95
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Written for the elementary
school reader, this is an engaging and informative story of one family's
trek westward of the eve of the great Gold
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WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK: The story
of the Corps of Discovery
William C. and Jan E. Hill (OCTA
members)
Paperback........#1571..........$3.95
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Here is a book
that makes history exciting and fun for young children. They will love doing
the various activities (mazes, word search, secret message, etc. plus a special
art project) while they learn about the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery
at the same time. Patterned after Heading West.
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