"California or Bust!" That's what some of the early pioneers shouted as they traveled westward in wagon trains. The pioneers had to find a pass through a range of mountains called the Sierra Nevada...
WHERE NATURE GETS IN THE WAY
What happens when you want to get to the other side of a mountain, when you can't climb it? How do you get to the other side of a lake or a river, when you don't have a boat? How do you get a boat...
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE
Sometimes a building becomes famous because an important person slept there. Many times we don't know that the person really did stay there. But we can be sure there is at least one place where...
LAKE IN A CRATER
Crater Lake in Oregon is so big it looks like a bathtub for a giant. The clear, blue water fills the crater of a volcano named Mount Mazama. Scientists say that Mount Mazama exploded thousands of...
CLIMBING MOUNT FUJI
Some people climb mountains just because they're there. Others do it just for the fun or adventure of it. But some people climb Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, for a completely different...
Along about sundown
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival Thrill to the music of the banjos, fiddles, and dulcimers. And listen as the caller sings out the steps for the square dance: \"Wave the ocean, wave the sea, Wave...
Plant communities on mountains
> mountainside communities Forest, grassland, tundra, and even desert communities may all be found on a mountainside. A mountain is like a little world. It has many kinds of plant communities,...
Keeping things even
Once, several thousand deer and a few dozen mountain lions lived together in a part of Arizona. Each year, the mountain lions ate hundreds of deer. But, during the year, hundreds of new deer were...
Life in low places and high places
Underground caves are blacker than a lump of coal. Mountaintops are cold and bare. It doesn't seem possible for animals to live in these places. But animals do live in them. Small, white fish swim...
The bottom of the sea
What lies beneath the ocean? What's at the bottom of the deep blue sea? Tall mountains! Great plains! Deep valleys! Volcanoes! The whole outside of the earth is covered with a rocky crust. The...
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