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From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just
...3) Gold
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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.
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Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
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71 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Hoping to escape the attention brought on by the accident that flattened Stanley, the Lambchop family drives to South Dakota, where they become involved in a wild west adventure at Mount Rushmore.
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2013
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105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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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.
6) Pale rider
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An unknown stranger rides into a California Gold Rush town and gets caught in the middle of a feud between the mining syndicate and independent miners.
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
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182 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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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.
10) A night too dark
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
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322 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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When an abandoned pickup truck complete with suicide note leads a search party to find human remains that have clearly served as a snack for a bear, case closed--suicide by Alaska. But things get complicated when the dead man stumbles out of the wilderness and onto Kate's homestead weeks later. Kate and Trooper Jim Chopin must unravel the story of the man and the body, whoever he is, which is wrapped up in the politics of the Suulutaq Mine, a gold...
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1995?]
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
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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.
15) The 33
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
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In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign of hope.
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2022.
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1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn...
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Distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2011
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32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
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"In 1848, carpenter James Marshall made a chance discovery that would change the face of the American West. That discovery: a few shiny flakes-of gold in a riverbed he was digging. Within a year 800,000 gold-seekers from all over the world were on their way to California, and the Gold Rush was on. This book covers the entire period of the boom-and-bust of one of the greatest expansion periods in US history-from the dangers of the journey, to the rough...
18) Dreams of dust
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Film Movement volume 5, film 9
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
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1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in northeast Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit.
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Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
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Introduces young readers to the history of the California gold rush, describing the journey to California, the process of panning for gold, and the fortunes that this gold brought many different people.
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[2019]
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"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series. After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of town, sending Appaloosa buzzing with excitement. ...
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