Zachary's Horses picks up where Zachary’s Gold left off and continues the adventures of Zachary Beddoes. It is 1870, and the ex-lawman is hiding out in the capital of colonial British Columbia, using the name Lincoln Zachary. He soon...
Gold mines and mining
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Author:Krumm, StanSummary:In 1864, headstrong Pinkerton man Zachary Beddoes is tired of guarding hotels and railway stations, so he decides to quit his life of private law-enforcement and head west for gold. In San Francisco, Zachary hears that the best...
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Author:Clark, SallySummary:It is 1897, and word of gold on the Klondike has spurred a frantic rush of miners to cash in on the riches rumoured to be found there. But by the time the prospectors arrive, all the claims have been staked. Without enough supplies or...
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Author:Forsythe, Mark, Dickson, GregSummary:In 1858, over eight decades had passed since Captain James Cook claimed the shores of what would become British Columbia for the British crown, but European settlers had shown little interest in the new lands. The non-aboriginal...
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Author:PRICHARD, Katharine SusannahSummary:This is a story of the goldfields of Western Australia. Not only of the gold industry as it was, but also the lives of many of the people involved.
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Author:Cade, ScottySummary:After six months of research, adventure seekers Bowen McAlister, Cyrus Curran, Duff Gentry and Lockhart Dawson make their way to Boulder, Colorado, to explore the abandoned gold mine Ruby Lode. But when they arrive, Duff, a born psychic...
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Author:Stewart, RonSummary: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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The story of the rock-hard men who ripped fortunes out of the rock-hard mines in the old West.
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
JOHNSTONE'S AMERICA. THE GOLD STANDARD. From the acclaimed chroniclers of the Old West comes a blazing new saga of the great American Gold Rush—and the boldhearted dreamers who made it all happen ... THEY CALLED THEM THE FORTY-...
- Author:Richardson, Henry HandelSummary:
Contents: Australia Felix - The way home - Ultima Thule.
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Author:Laut, Agnes C., French, DianaSummary:Agnes C. Laut’s The Cariboo Trail is a fascinating history of the Canadian gold rush that began in 1858. When, in early 1849, a group of ragged miners arrived in the sleepy town of Victoria from California, no one would have believed...
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Author:London, JackSummary:The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog...
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Author:Antonson, Rick, Antonson, BrianSummary: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...
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil's Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of...
- Author:Donaldson-Yarmey, JoanSummary:
It is 1896, and 19-year-old Pearl Owens wants adventure. To fulfill her dream, Pearl is on her way to the Yukon with her cousin, Emma, to write articles and do illustrations about the woman and men who are looking for gold in the north...
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Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a...
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Author:Stonier-Newman, LynneSummary:Powerful and diligent, Peter O’Reilly played a role in shaping British Columbia in the last quarter of the 1800s. An immigrant from Ireland, O’Reilly landed in Victoria during the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush and was appointed gold...
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Author:Steiner, Barbara A.Summary:At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
- Author:Crewe, PaddySummary:
It's 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia. Mute, medical anomaly, and social outcast Yip Tolroy is born. His father has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother, a powerful,...
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Author:Taussig, Michael T.Summary:In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast....
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