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    By Cushman, Karen
     c1996., 5.5; 5-8, Clarion Books Call No: Y CUS    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
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    By Evanovich, Janet  Hamilton, Steve
     2021., Adults, Simon and Schuster Call No: FIC EVA    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Fox and O'Hare novel.   Volume: #7Summary Note: Forced into an unlikely partnership by the FBI, Special Agent Kate O'Hare and international conman Nick Fox have brought down some major criminals together, but nobody this big: A vast international organization known as The Brotherhood. Directly descended from the World War II Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler, they're now searching for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold that has been hidden deep inside a labyrinthine maze of tunnels in the Tatra Mountains of Eastern Europe, untouched for over seventy-five years.
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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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    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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    By Hobbs, Will
     c1999., 5.1; 5-8, Morrow Junior Books Call No: Y HOB    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Jason embarks on a ten thousand-mile journey in 1897 in hopes of striking it rich after hearing the news that gold has been discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory.
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    By West, Charles
     ©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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    By Pryor, Bonnie  Dodson, Bert
     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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    By Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008
     c2009., Adult, Harper Call No: FIC CRI   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: On Jamaica, a remote Caribbean colony in 1665, Captain Charles Hunter plots to steal Spanish gold from the galleon "El Trinidad," which awaits repairs in a nearby, heavily fortified harbor that is guarded by Cazalla, a bloodthirsty commander.
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    By Kent, Peter
     1997., Ages 3-6, Millbrook Press Call No: PB KEN    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In 1849 the impoverished Hornik family decides to leave Bohemia and emigrate to California in search of gold.
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    By McCarty, Sarah
     c2012., Harlequin Call No: ROM MCC    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Hell's Eight   Volume: bk #5Summary Note: Shadow Ochoa is lying low in the western Kansas Territory, waiting for his fellow Texas Rangers - the Hell's Eight brotherhood - to clear his name. That is, until he's unjustly strung up for horse thieving ...and pretty Fei Yen intervenes.
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    By Compton, Ralph
     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 ...
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    By Harding, Royal  Compton, Ralph
     2021., Adults, Berkley Call No: AW COM    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Sundown Riders series.Summary Note: It’s the bitterest winter anyone can remember, and Earl Tyrone can barely hold back the wolves preying on his family’s last few cattle. He gets no help from his older brother, Byrd, who’s only interested in striking out for California. Leaving Earl the sole protector of their ma and sister, Byrd finally reveals the secret source of the funds for his ticket West: he found gold on the ranch, and now it's Earl’s fortune to mine—if he’s strong enough and smart enough to hold on to it.