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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
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Description
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence - until her father leaves...
Author
Publisher
Arco
Pub. Date
1968
Description
Elam Harnish has more money than he would ever need. As he accumulates wealth as a successful entrepreneur in the Alaskan Gold Rush, Harnish must face the challenges of the Yukon Territory. After he makes a fortune, Harnish finds himself still unsatisfied. In efforts to find a new challenge and make more money, Harnish decides to move down to the mainland of America, settling in California. However, after a group of money kings threaten to take his...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
Description
In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the dreams of Americans from coast to coast. By 1849, hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from across the globe headed west to stake their claim. Armed with pan or pick axe, driven by greed or glory, every last one of them was determined to strike it rich--or die trying. For Cord Bennett, it was more than a dream. California was his destiny--even...
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Series
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on an orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence,...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A raucous western comedy, is punctuated with a classic Lerner and Loewe musical score, including “They Call the Wind Maria” and “I Talk to the Trees.” The story of a gold mining boomtown full of brawny men centres on the work-and-play partnership of Ben and Pardner (Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood) and the delicate wife they share (Jean Seberg).
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When Gold Rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese came through San Francisco to seek fortune. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a legend of one extraordinary woman as a lens into this experience. Before 1849, the Chinese in the United States were little more than curiosities. But as word spread of gold in California, San Francisco's labyrinthine Chinatown sprang up, a city-within-a-city full of exotic foods and strange...
Author
Series
Chronicles of America volume 25
Publisher
Yale university press; [etc., etc.]
Pub. Date
1918
Description
Explore the fast-paced, gold-filled adventures in the life of a forty-niner in this lengthy work of historical fiction.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002
Description
When gold was first discovered on the American River above Sutter's Fort in January 1848, California was a sparsely populated frontier territory that had yet to be officially ceded to the United States following the war with Mexico. The astonishing news - gold in California! - prompted hundreds of thousands of people from around the world to flock to California in hopes of finding instant riches ... By 1850, California had become a state - the fastest...
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Having arrived in California, Lee Westfall's magical power is growing and changing every day and may be enough, with help from her true friends, to stop her villainous Uncle Hiram when he kidnaps her and sends her deep into his gold mine.
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Strike it rich with this book about the California gold rush and its influence on westward expansion in the United States! The story begins with James Marshall's initial discovery in 1848 and continues with the ensuing migration and lasting effects of the historic era.