Hands-On Tour
Tourists & their Travels
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
How did people travel in 19th-century America? In this hands-on tour we hear from gold rush emigrants, settlers, soldiers, Indians, and European tourists. Examine the travel papers they left behind-maps, advertisements, broadsides, letters home, guidebooks, and scrap books-and see where they went and what they saw.
