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Language
English
Description
Bloodbrothers Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves weren't looking for trouble when they rode into the little gold mining town of Jordanville high in the Colorado Rockies. All they wanted was a hot meal and something cold to wash it down. But[, when they saw an unarmed man getting beaten with a bulwhip, their sense of honor and fair play wouldn't let them pass thorugh without lending a hand. Soon they were in the middle of a violent land war and up to...
5) Mother lode
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It's Silas McGee's gold. He just hasn't found it yet, although he's searched for his mother lode for more than 30 years in the remote high country of British Columbia. Strangers with a similar bent for gold had best stay away: folks like that may never come out of McGee's mine alive.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having little regard for Ebenezer Overall's strange habit of hoarding junk, the townspeople don't pay much mind to the old prospector and his shack, but when the rains come and wash away the town, it is Ebenezer's hidden barrels of treasure that save thecommunity.
9) Blood bond
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two friends—one white and one Cheyenne—must choose sides as frontier tensions built to the Battle of Little Bighorn in this historical Western.
Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the Native American boy's life. Beneath the Montana sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the Indian and the white man who...
Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the Native American boy's life. Beneath the Montana sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the Indian and the white man who...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
""For Fans of: Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, and Johnny D. Boggs, Buell opens with a death threat and ends with a promise of a new life. In between, Buell Mace, a confused and guilt-ridden young man, longs to be loved but fears affection more than death"--
"Synopsis:Young Buell Mace, on the run again, leaves Fort Laramie and the only person he ever trusted. He crosses paths with grizzled prospector Arley Hill who's on his way to the goldfields...
11) Sisu
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During WWII, a solitary prospector crosses paths with Nazis in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover he is no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word 'sisu,' the legendary ex-commando will embody what it means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And this one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold...
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
Gracie Pearl has until sundown to find some gold to pay the rent to Mr. Bigglebottom, or he will take back the family gold mine and force her to marry him.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A western dark comedy based on the novel of the same name by Patrick deWitt. The film stars John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as the two notorious assassin brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters, who get caught up in the California Gold Rush.
15) Lucky Jake
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While panning for gold with his Pa, Jake adopts a pig that he names Dog.
16) The lady's mine
Author
Language
English
Description
1875. Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas. 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 decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper-- and finds herself...
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Every summer, the curtain of ice covering Greenland is pulled back, revealing the potential for untold riches in the rock below. Enter eight ragtag prospectors, pooling their resources to touch the untouched in hopes of uncovering the gold and precious gems that lie beneath the surface. In the beginning spirits are high, but nature is a harsh opponent, throwing rockslides and avalanches into the already risky business. Disappointing hardships and...
19) The Badlanders
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territory, 1898. Peter Van Hoek is set up for a crime and does his time in Yuma Prison. Now, he's ready for payback. He cons the mining boss who set him up, by selling him a fortune in gold that comes from the boss's own mine. An ex-inmate will provide muscle for the scheme. A downtrodden local will use his skill with TNT to be the job's Powder Monkey. Well, it's the plan anyway.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the hard rock mining industry that developed in the American west following the gold rush, including the operations of a mine and the lives of the miners and their families.