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Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure ... or...
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"For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose...
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Outside Reading
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English
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Zachary Knox, a sharpshooter known as "the Bull's-Eye Telepath," heads north in search of gold. On his way he meets Sephy, a magnetic woman on the trail of her lost brother. But on arrival, they find the mining camp is home to a shadowy mining company. The mine boss, Trevillian, rules the camp like a despotic priest, and at the center of his faith is Hope, an elusive goddess for whom the miners toil, enduring increasingly perilous trials as they pursue...
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.
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Isis
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Jim and Diana Stannard were rendered penniless gentlefolk after the disaster which befell their father's investments. Pressured by mounting debts and maintaining the facade of genteel living, Jim determines to make a fresh start overseas with the last of the family's assets -- his father's old land claims in Canada. Diana, appalled by the prospect of a harsh colonial existence, swears she will not accompany him -- but her foiled theft of her hostess's...
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Harold G. Ross Publishing
Pub. Date
©2006
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English
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Eighteen year old William Shannon, from rugged Durango and Mesa Verde area, crosses the purple divide eastward to adventure in the rough gold mining towns of Colorado. He soon learns the dangers still present in the 1800's as he rides the Smoky Hill Trail into Kansas, fighting rebel Kiowa Indians along the way. In Abilene he experiences the brutal world of bare-knuckle boxing matches with the local champion and bully. When circumstance sends the young...