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 * 1) What are the Geographical features of California's Salinas River Valley?**

- The Salinas river is 155 miles long. The river is fed by the major tributaries the Namcimento and San Antonio Rivers in the southern end of the Salinas Valley.


 * 2) What is the Salinas Valley is known as?**

-it appeared on maps appeared as Rio de Monterey. The Valley its self was called Valle de Monterey.


 * 3) What kinds of jobs are available there?**

- The agricultural economy includes more than farmers and farm workers, as there are many supporting industries in such fields as banking, accounting, computers, cooling, trucking, fertilizers, pesticides, agronomy, packaging materials, trucks, tractors, sales and marketing, irrigation and food processing.


 * 4) What was John Steinbeck's relationship to the Salinas Valley?**

- He grew up in the Salinas Valley - The first few books were based off of that location


 * 5) Identify specific locations relevant to //Of Mice and Men//?**

- A ranch near Soledad south east of Salinas, California

**STUDY GUIDE!**
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