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A guest speaker tells the students in the one-roomed Manchester School about the rough mining days in California's past, and in particular, about the career of

The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man. As a young woman

A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment.In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventur

Jacob Wright Harlan (born 1828) grew up in Indiana and moved to Michigan where he joined an uncle who organized a wagon train to California in 1845. California

Charley's Choice: The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst is a fictional memoir of a California gold rush era stagecoach driver, who, upon death, was discovered