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2012., Age: 8-14, Scholastic Call No: J AUD PAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
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By Nix, David[2022]., Adults, Sourcebooks Casablanca Call No: AW NIX Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jake Paynter Series Volume: #3.Summary Note: "Jake Paynter cheated death, but now there's hell to pay. After escaping the hangman's noose, Jake is now forced to lie low while every lawman, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi guns for his head. When he receives word that miners at South Pass City are getting brutally murdered, he fears for his immigrant friends from the Oregon Trail. Against his better judgment, Paynter travels to the mining fields to bring the culprit to justice. Hiding in an abandoned mine by day and sleuthing at night, Jake begins to unravel the mystery of the deaths, drawing the hushed admiration of frightened families who begin looking to him for salvation. However, he faces more than a mysterious killer. His nemesis, Lucien Ashley, has hired a Pinkerton detective and a cutthroat gang from Philadelphia to capture or kill him. As adversarial forces close in, Jake must decide what he is willing to sacrifice. To run might preserve his life. To stay and fight for his friends might save his soul. For what a man fights for spells the difference between honor and dishonor, between duty and disgrace, between valor and simple violence."--
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1987., Ages 3-6, Viking Kestrel Call No: G NIX Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.
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2009., Avalon Books Call No: AW JAC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The luck of the draw series
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By Avi, 1937-2020., Ages 9-13, Candlewick Press Call No: Y AVI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 for the gold fields and the care of Jacob falls to her. Then Jacob vanishes, kidnapped, perhaps hidden among the hundreds of ships - called Rotten Row - that have been abandoned in the bay. If he is there, Tory must find him in a treacherous search. Tory comes close to losing everything in her quest for her own and her brother's freedom.
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©2013., Adults, Signet Call No: AW WES Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cam Sutton is ready to make his name prospecting for gold in the Black Hills. But his quest for riches is interrupted when he happens upon a stagecoach holdup and ends up rescuing Mary Bishop and her two young daughters. Before striking out on his own, Cam decides to help Mary search for her husband, who disappeared while mining. Turns out Mr. Bishop was murdered--but not before finding enough gold to make Mary a very wealthy woman. Unwilling to leave them unprotected, Cam offers to help escort the ladies on the long journey back to Cheyenne. But with the threat of bandits constantly looming, and a greedy, cold-blooded killer on their trail, the road is even more treacherous than Cam anticipated.
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c2000., Ages 3-6, HarperCollins Call No: G PRY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American adventuresSummary Note: In 1850, Luke and Toby set sail from Boston to California on a voyage featuring shady characters, a story of a lost gold mine, and a cabin boy with a secret.
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c1996., Ages 3-6, A. Whitman Call No: YM WAR Availability:1 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Boxcar children mysteries Volume: #52Summary Note: On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
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2011., Adults, Signet Call No: AW COM Edition: Updated edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sundown Riders.Summary Note: Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck - until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine - and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...
