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Product Description Adventure awaits! Take a trip with Lewis and Clark, or journey along newly opened Santa Fe Trail. Dare to face the dangers Pony Express riders dealt with every day. Or search for your fortune in California with the '49ers. Learn about these daring adventurers and why what they did helped shape the United States. Book Description engaging text focused on subjects from the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Pony Express to the California Gold Rush and the Santa Fe Trail; images and infographics to support the text; callouts and glossary add to readers' understanding of key words; Read More and FactHound sites direct students to resources where they can learn even more; Common Core writing prompts encourage readers to think about what they've read engaging, exciting text focused on subjects from the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Pony Express to the California Gold Rush and the Santa Fe Trail; images and infographics to support the text; callouts and glossary add to readers' understanding of key words; Read More and FactHound sites direct students to resources where they can learn even more About the Author Jean F. Blashfield has worked for publishers in Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, D.C. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she has written more than 90 books, most of them for young people. Jean F. Blashfield has two adult children and lives in Delavan, Wisconsin.