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Lively picture
book that captures the frenzy of the gold rush, "Even my cook
has left me – John Sutter," how people got to California,
"Seventy miles without a drop o' water," the boomtowns,
"Nearly everybody is up to their knees in mud and water. Snakes
are plenty." (Picture book)
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In
this exuberant tale of Amanda's gooseberry pies, not all fortunes
are made in the gold fields. Selling pies to miners is so successful
that Amanda opens a bakery, and as her pie business blossoms,
the town grows in leaps and bounds. Rip-roaring illustrations.
(Picture book)
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Teenage Jack
and his family butler, Praiseworthy, head for the gold fields of
California, traveling by sea around Cape Horn. In Hangtown, the
resourceful Praiseworthy takes to gold panning with an umbrella
and bare-knuckle fighting, and together they strike pay dirt. Exuberant,
high-spirited reading. (Chapter book)
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1849.
Lucy's mom uproots the family from comfy Massachusetts to live
in the dry, dusty town of Lucky Diggins. Far from instant riches,
Lucy cooks pies, washes sheets, skins rabbits, boils bear fat
for soap, and reads books every chance she gets. With Lucy's sharp
eye and funny, bittersweet narrative, this is a gem.
(Chapter book)
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Young
William Dwinelle leaves Philadelphia to track down a gentleman scoundrel
in the goldfields of California, crossing the steaming jungles of
Panama, encountering gamblers, thieves, actors, and grizzly bears,
as he makes his way to the gold camps. Gritty adventures and a good
teen read. (Chapter book)
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Little
Chang helps his Grandpa Li peel potatoes in the Gold Ditch Hotel
kitchen, but he yearns for a pony. Chang pans for gold so he can
buy a pony, but finds treasure in the most unlikely place –
under his feet. (Easy reader)
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Mistaken
for a young muchacho, Anny Rose (from Vermilion Parish, Louisiana),
rides with the dashing bandit Joaquin Murieta, the "Robin Hood"
of the Sierra foothills. A funny swashbuckling adventure. (Chapter
book)
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Essential
guide to miners and mining – panning techniques, sluices,
hard rock mining, miner's tools, what's a stamp mill, inside a
mine and hazards of life underground. (Picture book)
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Humorous
tale of gold miners' toils and travails in rhymes and pictures.
"Grumpy miners, nuggets – small."
Striking, rich illustrations. (Picture book)
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