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1) Dirty gold
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Gold, the enduring safe investment and symbol of wealth, comes at a high price. Mined in slave-like conditions, it has been linked to everything from funding civil wars in Africa to causing environmental disasters in Latin America. The market for gold is enormous with 70% of global production handled by just one country: Switzerland. The industry has been protected by the Swiss state for more than a century, and turning a blind eye here is standard...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Describes the California Gold Rush of 1848 during which many American men left in search of wealth while their families stayed home to sustain their businesses and farms. Also examines the lure of success that drew people to California and the conditions and violence they encountered there.
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2006?]
Language
English
Description
Jack and the beanstalk: When babysitting, Costello falls asleep and dreams he is Jack of the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Dink, played by Abbott, and Jack declare their intentions to rescue the princess and bring back the hen that lays the golden eggs. Instead, they are captured by a "man-eating" giant and threatened with great punishment until Jack effects a swashbuckling escape and, after his friends have followed, Jack the giant killer chops...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The captivating New York Times bestseller that brings to life the passionate, adventurous men and women who transformed San Francisco during the California gold rush Kendra comes to San Francisco, a sleepy town of nine hundred people, because her stepfather, an army colonel, is charged with overseeing its defenses during the Mexican War. Marny arrives from Honolulu to set up a gambling hall. Neither expects to be swept up in one of history's greatest...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Loeti has spent years away from his village in French Guiana, working in extreme conditions. When the army cracks down on illegal gold mining in the Amazon forest, he is forced to flee and must use the skills he learned as a child to survive in the forest. His only hope is to find his way home to his people and reclaim his Maroon past and culture.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Author David Nix writes an action-packed, authentic historical western series featuring: A former soldier with a target on his back A slew of bounty hunters determined to claim their prize A ruthless detective who wants to see Jake pay A breathtaking journey across the wild west Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay...
9) Pale rider
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
One man stands up to the corporate mining boss who is out to kill all of the independent miners in gold rush California.
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
To save his wife's closest friend, Sheriff Pat Stevens-with the help of his trusty friends Sam and Ezra-pursues a gang of masked gunmen Sheriff Pat Stevens should be the happiest man in Powder Valley. He has a thriving ranch, a healthy son, and the prettiest wife in Colorado. After a shootout with a gang of outlaws nearly cost him his life, he promised Sally he would hang his guns up for good. But trouble is coming to the Valley, and Pat can feel...
11) Over the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure . . ....
Author
Series
Publisher
Stygian Sky Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three families traveling through the mountains of North Carolina to claim their share of the gold rush become stranded deep in the forest, overwhelmed by the unrelenting snow and frigid temperatures. It doesn't take long for the food supply to run out, for desperation and harmful intentions to set in. When one of their own dies, they commit a depraved act to survive, a depraved act that unleashes a curse that will not stop until every one of them...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Contents: Gold fever strikes -- Race to the Klondike -- The Dead Horse Trail -- Down the Yukon -- Welcome to Dawson City -- The search for gold -- After the Gold Rush -- Where does the Klondike Gold Rush fit into history?
15) Klondike tales
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents twenty-three of Jack London's wilderness tales, which grew from his experiences during the Klondike gold rush, and includes maps and text notes.
Author
Publisher
Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In August 1876, Jack Jones, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is assigned to write about the doings of Deadwood, Dakota Territory-an illegal gold camp that knows no law. The lure of gold in the Lakota's Black Hills draws prospectors and many colorful characters, such as Al Swearengen, Calamity Jane, Colorado Charlie Utter, Seth Bullock, Madame Mustache, and Sol Star, and it also lures crime. After the shocking murder of an acquaintance, Jack Jones...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, also possessed extraordinary wealth. He built a temple at Jerusalem that was said to be more fabulous than any other landmark in the ancient world, heavily adorned with gold from Ophir. The precise location of this legendary land has been one of history's great unsolved mysteries. Long before Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines produced a fresh outbreak of gold fever, explorers, scientists...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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. With the strike, a slew of new problems develop for Cole and Hitch. Two shrewd mining factions and their hired gun hands square off over the claim....
19) The gold rush
Author
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly discusses the events surrounding the nineteenth-century gold rush in California, using first-hand accounts.
20) The gold rush
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the gold rush and discusses how people traveled West, what tools they used to find gold, where most of the travelers settled, and other related topics.
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