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Author
Series
Peter Fallon novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
495 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, are headed to California, where their search for a lost journal takes them into the history of Gold Rush. The journal follows young James Spencer, of the Sagamore Mining Company, on a spectacular journey from staid Boston, up the Sacramento River to the Mother Lode. During his search for a "lost river of gold," Spencer confronts vengeance, greed, and racism in himself...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes...
3) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010 c2009
Physical Desc
204 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
5) White Fang
Author
Language
English
Description
White Fang is part dog, part wolf--and the only one of five tiny cubs to survive. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North--kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who buys him and turns him into a vicious killer--a pit dog forced to fight for money. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master or will he die a fierce killer?
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Strike it rich with this book about the California gold rush and its influence on westward expansion in the United States! The story begins with James Marshall's initial discovery in 1848 and continues with the ensuing migration and lasting effects of the historic era.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
One of the most popular and exciting adventure stories is now being reissued with vibrant, realistic paintings by a highly acclaimed artist and an introduction by award-winning author, Gary Paulsen. First published in 1903, this striking reissue is as relevant today as it was when it was first published. Black-and-white illustrations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black girl, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain,...
10) Call of the wild
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood legend Clark Gable stars in this soaring adaptation of the celebrated Jack London novel. Jack Thornton is a prospector who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When Jack buys Buck, a strong and loyal sled dog with part-wolf ancestry, their thrilling adventure through the Alaskan wilderness begins.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister’s husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice finally seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike.
What follows is an awakening of ambition for the quietly opportunistic Alice, who, by luck and circumstance, becomes tightly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
105 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!
13) Gold rush girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jan Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence until her father leaves...
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