1. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Holley, Mackenzie, Mallory, and Meaghan Period 3

2. Quotes From the Novel QUOTE ABOUT THE BUNKHOUSE “The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them were made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking” BARN “One end of the great barn was piled high with new hay and over the pile hung the four-taloned Jackson fork suspended from its pulley….A the sides the feeding racks were visible, and between the slats the heads of horses could be seen” FARMHOUSE “Think I’m gonna stay in that two-by-four house…” THE MEN “The door opened and a tall. Stoop-shouldered man came in. He was dressed in blue jeans and he carried a big push-broom in his left hand.”-Candy “A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunkhouse. His head still dripped from rubbing and dousing.”-Carlson “A tall man stood in the door way. He held a crushed Stetson hat under his arm while he combed his long, black, damp hair. Like the others he wore blue jeans and a short denim jacket.”-Slim

3. Soledad  Current population of Soledad, CA, is 27,210  located in California's Monterey county, about 25.3 miles from Salinas  Population in the 1930s was very sparse

4. Weed  Current population is 2978  Population in the 1930s was extremely small  Located near Mount Shasta

5. Salinas  Current population is 146,431  Population in the 1930s was 4,304  County seat of Monterey County

6. Salinas River  is the largest river of the central coast of California  draining nearly 4,200 square miles  wildlife corridor  155 miles long - primary water source of the Salinas Valley Farms and Vineyards  shallow river  most of the water flow is underground  longest underground river in America

7. Gabilan Mountains  l ocated on the Pacific Coast Range of California's Central Coast  highest point is 3,455 feet (Mount Johnson  home to the Pinnacles National Monument  bordered by the Diablo Range, the San Andreas Fault, and State Route 25 to the east and by the Santa Lucia Range, Salinas Valley, and U.S. Route 101 to the west.

8. 1930s Ranches BUNKHOUSE "The bunkhouse was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch." page 18 "Near one wall there was a black cast-iron stove, its stove pipe going straight up through the ceiling." page 18

9. More about 1930s Ranches BARN "One end of the great barn was piled high with new hay and over the pile hung the four-taloned Jackson fork suspended from its pulley. The hay came down like a mountain slope to the other end of the barn, and there was a level place as yet unfilled with the new crop. At the sides the feeding racks were visible and between the slats the heads of horses could be seen." page 83

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11. Work Cited Cont. “Map of Weed.” City Data. 12 Jan. 2009. “Salinas.” West Coast Roads. 12 Jan. 2009. “Salinas, CA.” California Views. 12 Jan. 2009. “Salinas, California.” Greenwhich Meantime. 12 Jan. 2009. “Soledad.” City Data. 12 Jan. 2009. “Soledad.” Photobucket. Photobucket. 12 Jan. 2009. “Soledad, CA.” Ground Speak. 12 Jan. 2009. “Weed, CA.” Siski You History. 12 Jan. 2009. “Weed CA.” Unscripted.com. 12 Jan. 2009.