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Hi Cortney, This looks great so far! I looked at the Wiki article for Gold Country, though, and I couldn't find a heading called "area development." And since you write that you'll focus on that, can you explain what you mean? What does that mean about what parts of the Multicultural Encyclopedia you'll use? Next week, post more about how you're focusing this and using sources specifically to build on the article. Way to go! Springerhe (talk) 00:03, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

I chose the article "Gold Country" to edit and improve. I noticed that it doesn't have much information about area development, which I think is where I'll focus my improvements. It also needs citations for some information already there, and I hope to be able to fill those in.
 * Heya Courtney, I am peer reviewing your article. From you intial post, let me know if I am reading into rightly, that you will be looking at area developement in regards to the settling a developing of the towns in that area? The resources you have initaly selected will probably help with the early histories of those areas. I am not sure where you will pull more modern data. The areas of Sonora, Oroville, Jackson, and Auburn have seen vast modern devlopment over the last 50 years to my own personal knowledge. I have taken field trips and traveled through many more of the towns listed in the article, it is a very big playground! You may be able to extend the lead a little by mentioning the more modern course of the area - I know Craiglist has a "Gold Country" geographical section so it is still kind of a valid designation for today. The article could use a map for reference, even if just had the positions of the towns listed. And yes reading the article there is not much on the delopement of the area or it's significance to California other than the mineral resource of Gold and vineyards. There are many rivers running through the gold country that contribute to Sacramento Valley for irrigation, Oroville now hosts the resevoir and North America's tallest dam ;-) In your development you may be able to mention the native people groups in the area as well as the immigrants who came in during the gold rush which may have helped shape the culture of the towns. Right now, it seems the article is highly focused on the land, and not necessarily the people of the land. Is it prudent to keep that focus or to expand it?Revjeff530 (talk) 19:48, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Sources for Gold Country Article
Kowalewski, Michael. "California Gold Rush." American History Through Literature 1820-1870, edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer, vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006, pp. 171-175. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3450700042/GVRL?u=orov49112&sid=GVRL&xid=dcb1c0b0. Accessed 25 Feb. 2018.

García, Justin D. "California Gold Rush." Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, edited by Carlos E. Cortés and Jane E. Sloan, vol. 1, SAGE Reference, 2014, pp. 415-418. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3718500162/GVRL?u=orov49112&sid=GVRL&xid=d6a44fe4. Accessed 25 Feb. 2018.

"Gold Rush of 1849." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, edited by Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk, vol. 1, Gale, 1999, pp. 378-380. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3406400370/GVRL?u=orov49112&sid=GVRL&xid=5a47add3. Accessed 25 Feb. 2018.