When Jacques Cartier sailed into the St. Lawrence River in what is now Canada, he believed that he might have found a passage through North America to the China Sea. He went back two more times to try to prove the existence of the Northwest Passage, but he had to abandon both journeys before he could finish them. His dream, however, inspired others to keep looking.
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Captain Bruff was the charismatic leader of a company of men who were marching west to the gold fields of California. He led with determination and authority, and he expected his men to conduct themselves as soldiers.
J. Goldsborough Bruff Fights His Way West
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Americans weren’t the only ones who wanted to go to California to find gold. Scotsman J.D. Borthwick went there too, paintbrush in hand, for he was an artist.
J.D. Borthwick Finds Gold with a Paintbrush
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Jim Cook was still young and foolish when he went on his first cattle drive from Texas to the railroad in Kansas, and he caused a stampede that resulted in a loss of 500 cattle.
James Cook: Greenhorn on the Chisholm
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James Hobbs was a foolish sixteen-year-old boy when, while out on a trading journey with a group of traders who were traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, he and another boy left the wagon train to chase a buffalo.
James Hobbs’s Long Journey
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In 1826, Jedediah Smith decided to lead a group of men southwest from Utah to search for the Buenaventura River, the mythical river that appeared on old Spanish maps but that no one had been able to find. The group made it to California without seeing the river, so Jed and two of his men went out again, heading east over the mountains and the desert. It was a treacherous journey, but Jed would not give up.
Jed Smith and the Search for the Buenaventura (Dyslexic Font)
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The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document, and in this book, Michael examines the language that Jefferson used to announce the American Revolution from England, showing precisely how Jefferson used vocabulary and grammar to achieve the ends he sought.6 Grades
Jefferson’s Truths
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The Jefferson’s Truths teacher manual includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain important points and tips for the instructor.6 Grades
Jefferson’s Truths – Teacher Manual
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When Hugh Glass was brutally attacked by a grizzly, his good friend Jim was deeply saddened, and he was one of two men who chose to stay with the old mountain man until he died so that they could bury his body.
Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
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Trappers in the early 1800s worked in parts of the West that were still unmapped. Jim Bridger was out trapping with a fur company when he was chosen by the company owner to follow a river to see where it led. To Jim’s delight, it led straight to a salty body of water. Had he just found the river to the Pacific Ocean that explorers had been searching for throughout the centuries since North America was discovered?
Jim Bridger’s Sea of Salt (Dyslexic Font)
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No one had taken a wagon train all the way to California when John Bidwell decided to do it.
John Bidwell’s Wagon Trip to California
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In 1842, the U.S. government sent John Fremont out to map the rest of the unknown West. He couldn’t have done it without the help of the famous mountain man Kit Carson. Trappers and explorers had mapped much of the land, but Captain Fremont’s job was to fill in the gaps so that the map of America was complete. It was hard, dangerous work, but the job was too important to let anything stand in the way.
John Fremont and Kit Carson Map the Westward Trails (Dyslexic Font)
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John Phillips had come to America from Portugal, and he was working at the U.S. Army’s Fort Phil Kearney as a woodcutter when Native Americans attacked the soldiers guarding the fort, putting the lives of everyone inside the fort at risk.
John Phillips Saves Fort Phil Kearney
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California was the land of promise, and John Sutter dreamed of building a colony there that would become a thriving, prosperous settlement that he himself would govern.
John Sutter’s Golden Dream
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From the Publisher: Sin is serious because God is Holy. Even if we are trusting in Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, the burden of our sin can quickly rob us of our Christian joy. So what should we do when we’ve done wrong in the eyes of God? This is the question that famously faced King David. In this brutally honest and hugely helpful book, Dai Hankey helps us to consider David’s spiritual journey. We’ll see the mess of David’s sin and the depths of his brokenness, but we’ll also see that hearing God’s word and responding in repentance turned David’s life around. Dai 'grabs us by the scruff of the neck' to do likewise and turn to God. As we do, we'll experience afresh the joy of being forgiven, no matter how far we may feel we’ve fallen.
Journey Back to Joy
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This is the story of the little runt who became the father of the world-famous breed of American horses -- the Morgan.Justin Morgan Had a Horse ***Discounted***
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