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Series
American diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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.
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
The Cripple Creek District, on the back of Pikes Peak in central Colorado, first found fame through Bob Womack, the cowboy who publicized his knowledge of gold in the high country and drew thousands to the area. Gold fever allowed the region to flourish, while strikes, fires, and economic hardships threatened the district's survival. The dwindling population's fortitude, plus innovative ideas to boost the economy, carried the city from a struggling...
63) Termination dust
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Series
Alaska mysteries volume 2
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Description
A retired Alaskan senator is murdered in the Yukon while sport fishing. Detective Alex Jensen, an Alaska state trooper, teams up with the Mounties for a manhunt in the bush. By the author of Murder on the Iditarod Trail.
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Leah Westfall has traveled thousands of miles, from Georgia to the gold fields of California. It has been a journey of ever-present danger, hidden magic, harsh realities, loss, life, determination, and love. Yet through it all, Lee has found people to trust, true friends and fellow misfits who have been by her side no matter what. In the rich land of California, Lee is poised to have everything she ever dreamed of - a place to belong, a place to call...
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Maggie Stevens's husband, Carter, has provided her with all the unexpected revelations she can handle. He told her that he didn't love her anymore, and as if that wasn't enough, that he had a new love. So when an envelope from an attorney arrives, Maggie is not looking forward to another surprise. Jacob Charles Murphy has died and has left his daughter, Maggie, a gold mine. Maggie has never really known her father, but this seems to be some unexpected...
68) The Yukon queen
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Series
House of Winslow volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"To fulfill his promise to a dying man, Cass Winslow locates the man's daughter and takes her with him in search of Klondike gold"--Provided by publisher.
71) Telluride
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
A young man returns to Telluride, Colorado, in 1892, when his father dies in a mysterious mine explosion just after striking gold.
74) Ghost town
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Love, hate, family, forgiveness, redemption, and sacrifice rock this small Western town. Family honor is defended while the gold rush surges forward.
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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
77) Dudley Do-Right
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Description
Follow the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Mountie as he struggles to outwit the evil Snidely Whiplash.
78) Gold
Description
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
Author
Series
Sapphire brides volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In 1890s Montana, a daughter who has moved from one mining camp to the next desires stability and love, not the blue stones her father brings home; when a handsome geologist arrives, he offers her new insight and hope"--
1890s. Emily Carver is tired of following her gold-hunting father from one mining camp to another: she wants a home where she can put down roots. When she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in their Montana...