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44) Orphan runaways
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Harrowing adventures accompany twelve-year-old Danny and his younger brother Judd when they run away from a San Francisco orphanage and search for their uncle in a gold rush boom town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
47) Skeleton Lode
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 6
Language
English
Description
Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck - until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine - and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...
Author
Series
American diaries volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.
49) Winds of promise
Author
Series
Wayward wind volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
50) A trap of gold
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Margaret finds a mysterious, shadowy figure watching her as she searches for a lost gold nugget from an abandoned mine.
Author
Series
Dreams of gold trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
52) California!
Author
Series
Wagons West. Main series volume 6
Language
English
Description
During the 1848 Gold Rush, a former Texas Ranger, an Eastern attorney, and a crippled war veteran and his wife are among the pioneers whose values and courage are tested in the quest for gold and the struggle to create a new life.
53) Gold Rush winter
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish-Americans Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left for the mines when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.
Author
Series
Dreams of gold trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
55) Irish gilt
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
59) The empty land
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
60) A tale of gold
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Orphaned fourteen-year-old James decides to join the "stampeders" heading to the Yukon gold rush, and along the way joins up with two unusual partners who share a common bond of wanting to strike it rich.