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2) Gold fever
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Description
In this brief rhyming story set during the gold rush, Jasper leaves his family and farm to pursue his dream of finding gold.
Author
Formats
Description
You Can Almost Taste the Old West!
Renowned for his detailed research and compelling characters, Earl Murray is an esteemed name in the historical fiction of the American Frontier and he proves it again in his newest novel of Old California.
Los Angeles ... in the1850s. John Dimas, a California Ranger goes undercover, following treacherous trails deep into the Sierra Nevada gold country in an attempt to do the impossible-infiltrate the elusive band...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1995?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
White Fang, the brave and spirited half-dog, half-wolf, faces untold danger when he and his beloved master risk their lives to protect a peaceful Native American tribe from a ruthless gang of land-grabbing gold miners.
12) Glorious
Author
Series
Cash McLendon novels volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Rising to a life of influence and wealth after a hard-luck youth in late nineteenth-century Arizona Territory, Cash McLendon flees in the wake of a tragedy and tries to win back the heart of a woman from his past only to be targeted by his former father-in-law.
Author
Series
Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 4
Formats
Description
"For generations, the Jensens have struggled to build their home, their land, and their dreams. But now the family is forced to fight fire with fire, bullet by bullet, blood for blood. For Smoke and his daughter Denny, life on the Sugarloaf Ranch is more valuable than all the gold in the world. Which works out fine, since all the gold mines in Big Rock were squeezed dry years ago. Even so, that won't stop a pair of smooth-talking businessmen from...
15) The gold rush
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (169 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in an avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal but Chaplin manages to keep himself from becoming dinner. Surviving all this, Chaplin goes on to fall in love with a Yukon dance hall girl....
Author
Series
Bulletin volume 193
Publisher
California Division of Mines and Geology
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
186 p. : ill., maps.
17) Gold
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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
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. All that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiance (and her father's business partner) insists she come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic...
20) Gold rush tech
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2007], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This in-depth program focuses on the impressive technology that evolved as a result of America's great rush to riches, and explores the inventions that took mining from a one-man operation to a multi-billion-dollar industry.
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