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Pub. Date
1985
Description
Describes the rush to gold experienced in Colorado beginning in 1859. As a result of the rush, many new towns were founded. Includes photographs and historical accounts of Golden Gate City, Golden, Morrison, Mount Vernon, and other eventual Jefferson County communities.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"For generations, people all over the world have been fascinated and enthralled by tales and legends of lost mines and buried treasures. North America has served as a setting for hundreds of stories of fortune won and lost, fantastical discoveries of riches beyond belief, and myths about cities of gold. Every now and then one of these treasures is found or a site is identified that stirs the imagination and results in a mad rush of enthusiasts seeking...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
People often dream of becoming rich. However, in the mid-1800s, people really could become rich overnight. The California gold rush brought many men to the area. These prospectors searched for gold. Some became lucky, while others lost all of their life savings. This book describes the history of the California gold rush and highlights what life was like for the men, women, and children who lived through the era.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"Gold! Gold on the American River!"
This declaration, shouted in the streets of San Francisco in the spring of 1848, electrified the nation, and its echo was heard in the farthest corners of the globe. In the five years that followed, tens of thousands of hopeful argonauts made their way to the vast territory on the Pacific conquered by the United States in its recent war with Mexico. They traveled overland from the Missouri River, their ox-drawn...
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This 1972 film adaptation of Jack Londons classic story stars Charlton Heston and Raimund Harmstorf as government mail carriers working in the hostile environment of the Yukon during the 19th. Century Klondike gold rush. During this time demand for good sled dogs was high, this is the story of Buck, a domestic pet stolen from a California ranch and sold to work the Skagway to Dawson City route pulling mail and supplies and the effort to adapt to his...
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Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) set off a stampede of over 100,000 people on a colossal journey from Alaska to the gold fields of Canada's Yukon Territory. The Klondike Gold Rush is an incredible story of determination, luck, fortune, and loss. In the end, it isn₂t all about the gold, but rather the journey to the Klondike itself.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Discover the compelling stories of the brave and adventurous women whose lives were forever changed by the Klondike gold rush. When the steamship Portland docked in Seattle's harbor in 1897, a group of scruffy men and women walked down the gangplank. There was nothing remarkable about them, except they were dragging sacks stuffed with half a million dollars? Worth of gold. Among them was Ethel Berry, who helped mine one of the richest claims in the...
100) Beyond the divide
Author
Pub. Date
1995, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.