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'...
Gold miners
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Auteur:Harte, BretSommaire:A baby is born in a mining camp and soon orphaned. The miners band together to raise the baby and he brings them luck in finding gold.
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Auteur:Stewart, RonSommaire:The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors named Lemon and Blackjack found gold in the rugged mountains of southwestern Alberta or...
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Auteur:Rivers, FrancineSommaire:She's new to this lawless mining town. He's one of its most prominent citizens. Neither wants much to do with the other. At first. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas,...
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Auteur:Carpenter, DavidSommaire:Joe is blessed with resolve and with good partners to share the load in his quest for gold. Stinky Riley is a wrangler and bush pilot who is Joe's first mentor in prospecting. Isidore Chartrand is a hunter and trapper who accompanies...
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Auteur:Antonson, Rick, Antonson, BrianSommaire:Slumach’s Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada’s greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man’s hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a...
- Auteur:CATRAN, KenSommaire:
A tale about a young Chinese girl and an Irish lad who are drawn to the Otago goldfields in the 1860s in the hope of striking it rich.
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Auteur:Tolton, Gordon E.Sommaire:Through his incredibly varied fifty-year career, John J. Healy left an indelible mark on the Canadian and American west. At different points in his storied life, Healy was a soldier, a trapper, a prospector, a free trader, an explorer,...
- Auteur:Elliott, MarieSommaire:
The history of gold mining on the Queen Charlottes (Haida Gwaii), the Fraser River, and in particular the Cariboo, with short bios of many of the important figures in the gold rush such as James Douglas and Matthew Baillie Begbie, as...
