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California Gold Rush novels volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
182 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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.
4) Newsgirl
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the spring of 1851 San Francisco is booming. 12-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she will earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune.
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After her sister's marriage, Michelle Stiles is left hiding at Two Harts Ranch with the handsome but stubborn Zane Hart. She's managed to stay one step ahead of her stepfather and his devious plans, but if he finds her, she will no longer be safe. Zane has problems of his own. Having discovered a gold mine on his property, he must figure out how to harvest it without kicking off a gold rush. Michelle, educated and trained to run her father's business,...
Author
Series
Angel trilogy volume 1
Publisher
1stBooks
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
x, 339 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Kathleen Connelly, Irish immigrant, widowed on the way to the California gold fields, she fought nature and man to found a far-flung empire built on gold. ... Megan Connelly, a beautiful woman-child every man wanted, and no man could tame. ... Danielle Connelly, orphaned on a savage frontier, she spoke no English, but found a way to survive and become the brains behind two great business empires. Two Moons, the Northern Paiute warrior's rage at the...
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In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, 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 isdecided that the 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, illness,...
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