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65) Gold rush Alaska
Publisher
Gaiam Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Six men from Sandy, Oregon and led by Todd Hoffman, risk everything to strike it rich mining for gold in Porcupine Creek, Alaska.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
Description
"In the depths of a cruel High Lonesome winter comes a cryptic message for Smoke Jensen. The letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Smoke knows only one person in San Francisco, Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure palaces. Smoke once rescued her from raiding Cheyenne, but now Madame Francie is mysteriously dead ... and Smoke's arrival in San Francisco is less than...
73) The widow Nash
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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-fiancé (and her father's business partner) insists she come to Seattle to decipher her father's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
The story of a young boy who lives with his proper Bostonian aunts and their very correct butler. When their money runs perilously low, the boy and the butler stow away on a ship bound for the gold fields of California and many adventures follow.
Author
Series
Western lands and waters volume 2
Publisher
A. H. Clark Co
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Author
Series
Research paper volume no. 6
Publisher
[Arizona State Historic Preservation Office]
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
80) The empty land
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In the mining town of Confusion, the mines were the target of a violent plot. Though Matt Coburn had cleaned up towns before, he just wanted out of here, but now the only way out could cost him his life.