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Journal of Education

NEW SERIES-VOLUME III.
OLD SERIES-GOLDEN ERA-VOL. XLIII.

SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER, 1898.

NUMBER 12 ESTABLISHED 1852

THE

Western Series of Readers

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Extensively Adopted and Used in the Schools of California and Washington

PACIFIC HISTORY STORIES NATURE STORIES OF THE NORTHWEST

FOR

BY HARR WAGNER
FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES

CONTENTS-The Story of How
Balboa Discovered the Pacific.
The Story of the Missions. The
First Ship to Enter the Golden
Gate. The Discovery of the Rocky
Mountains. The Story of the
Donner Party. The Bear Flag
Republic The Discovery of Gold.
The Golden Gate. The Story of
Fremont. How California Came
into the Union. Old Californians

who named California. Magellan, or the First Voyage Around the World. Cabrillo. The Story of Drake. The American Flag in California,

As a text book in hands of pupils in the sixth grade of the San Francisco schools. In the course of study of the following counties: El Dorado, Modoc, Lake, Merced, Santa Clara, Butte, Contra Costa. Alameda, Glenn, Inyo, Riverside, Kern, Trinity, Amador, Sutter, Santa Cruz, Ventura, Sonoma, in fact in most every county in California.

SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER, 1898.

NUMBER 12 ESTABLISHED 1852

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