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Gold mines and mining

  • Medusa's scream
    Author:
    Jackson, Melanie
    Summary:

    In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Chase gets a job at an abandoned gold mine that has been converted into an amusement ride. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
  • Margot et la fièvre de l'or
    Author:
    Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, Dupas, Philippe, Therrien, Joanne
    Summary:

    Margot, Willie, son frère jumeau, mémère Bette et l’oncle Albert se lancent à la conquête du Klondike! Cette drôle d’équipe fera un voyage plein de péripéties de l’Alaska à Dawson. Sur terre ou en plein fleuve, les aventures de Margot...
  • Lin and the Red Stranger
    Author:
    CATRAN, Ken
    Summary:

    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.
  • La promesse d’hier : À l'est du soleil, livre 2
    Author:
    Chaikin, Linda Lee
    Summary:

    Fils du châtelain de Grimston Way, l’aristocrate Rogan Chantry s’est démené pour gagner son indépendance de Sir Julien Bley et de la Société britannique en Afrique du Sud. À présent, sa recherche d’un mystérieux dépôt d’or, dont l’...
  • Gunman's Reckoning
    Author:
    BRAND, Max
    Summary:

    A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is the...
  • Good time girls of the Alaska-Yukon gold rush
    Author:
    Morgan, Lael
    Summary:

    In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde,...
  • Gold rushes
    Author:
    Hollihan, Tony
    Summary:

    From California's 49ers to the Klondikers in the Yukon, men and women with a lust for fortune and adventure stampeded to the gold fields of the West. All the biggest gold rushes of the 19th-century frontier are recounted in this...
  • Gold panning in British Columbia
    Author:
    Lewis, Jim, Campany, Susan
    Summary:

    “I want to gold pan; I want to strike rich. I’ve been searching for a stream of gold. It’s these fortunes I never win that keep me searching for a stream of gold. And I’m getting old. I keep searching for my stream of gold; and I’m...
  • Gold panner's manual
    Author:
    Basque, Garnet
    Summary:

    With the economy as uncertain as ever, gold panning is making a comeback. Why not pick up a piece or two of surprisingly simple equipment and check that stream by your campsite? The techniques, the pans, the pickaxes and the educated...
  • Gold in British Columbia : discovery to Confederation
    Author:
    Elliott, Marie
    Summary:

    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...
  • Gold fever trail
    Author:
    Hughes, Monica
    Summary:

    Two adventurous kids travel to the Klondike River Valley gold fields to see if they can find their missing father.
  • Gold fever : incredible tales of the Klondike gold rush
    Author:
    Mole, Rich
    Summary:

    In 1897, tens of thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the Yukon in search of instant wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. In this historical tale of mayhem and obsession, characters like prospectors George Carmack and Skookum...
  • Double crossing
    Author:
    Mims, Meg.
    Summary:

    A murder arranged as a suicide ... a missing deed ... and a bereft daughter whose sheltered world is shattered. In August 1869, Lily Granville is stunned by her father's murder. Only one other person knew about a valuable...
  • Death Pans Out
    Author:
    Graves, Ashna
    Summary:

    While recovering from breast cancer, journalist Jeneva Leopold seeks solitude and healing at her uncle’s idle gold mine in the sagebrush desert of Eastern Oregon. Hiking the rocky ridges, swimming in the old mining pond, and ignoring...
  • Deadly innocent
    Author:
    Gallaher, Bill
    Summary:

    Best-selling chronicler of the gold rush Bill Gallaher now brings us the compelling story of the Rennie brothers. Lured by dreams of wealth and a better life, William, Gilbert and Thomas Rennie set out for the Cariboo goldfields in the...
  • Crazy for gold
    Author:
    Wishinsky, Frieda, Griffiths, Dean
    Summary:

    Since discovering the Canadian Flyer, a magical time-traveling sled, in Emily’s attic, Matt and Emily have met fearsome pirates in Frobisher Bay and outrun dinosaurs in the Alberta badlands. In Crazy for Gold, Emily and Matt fly to the...
  • Cariboo gold rush : the stampede that made BC
    Author:
    Downs, Art
    Summary:

    In 1858, some 30,000 gold seekers stampeded to the Fraser River. Scores perished during the gruelling journey, but some made their fortune and many pressed on northwards to the creeks of the Cariboo. Originally compiled by Art Downs,...
  • Barkerville gold
    Author:
    Gaetz, Dayle
    Summary:

    Rusty, Katie and Sheila are sent out of town with Rusty's grandparents to keep them out of trouble. This time the trio is in historic Barkerville, a gold rush town with a secret. After witnessing what they take to be a ghost in the...
  • Barkerville and the Cariboo goldfields
    Author:
    Wright, Richard Thomas
    Summary:

    The stories of the men and women who dug for gold on Williams Creek are told in this revised and updated edition of a Canadian bestseller. The legendary town of Barkerville is flourishing today, just as it did more than 150 years ago,...
  • Alice Ackerman : the Chilcotin saga
    Author:
    Harris, Yvonne
    Summary:

    This sweeping saga is set in the 1860s when Canada was emerging as a nation, during the Cariboo gold rush and against the backdrop the U.S. Civil War. Alice, a strong-minded woman, witnesses the injustices that surround her but is...

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