Treasure Hunt

Primary Sources

Directions: Using the journalistic approach of Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How, examine one of the documents below. Use the How Does It Read? Guide to describe what you are reading. Be sure to look at the vocabulary words.

1

For your boy and my boy; Buy bonds; Hear the bugle call, 1918

Egbert Van Alstyne, 1882-1951

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)

2

C. W. Post; or, What is this Strange Power?

Cornflake Crusade

By Gerald Carson

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

3

Why Women Should Vote

Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

4

CHAPTER XIV Fire Departments of Early Days

Memories; my seventy-two years in the romantic county of Yuba, California.

By W.T. Ellis

California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

5

Lobo, the King of Currumpaw

Wild Animals I Have Known

By Ernest Seton Thompson

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

6

J. W. Wilson Interview

"Twenty Little Froggies"

By. J.W. Wilson

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940