Bluewater Gold Rush
Title | Bluewater Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Kendrick |
Publisher | Azalea Creek Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780967793436 |
Covers Tom Kendrick's life as a sea urchin diver (and surfer) and the California sea urchin fishery from 1978 through 1996. He and others dived in areas such as the Channel Islands and the shark-infested Farallon Islands.
What Was the Gold Rush?
Title | What Was the Gold Rush? PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Holub |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2013-02-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1101610298 |
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!
America's Gold Rush!
Title | America's Gold Rush! PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Mattern |
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ISBN | 9780329632397 |
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Title | Gold rush country;/ PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
The Gold Rush
Title | The Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Liza Ketchum |
Publisher | Little Brown |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | California |
ISBN | 9780316490474 |
This companion book to an 8-part documentary series about the history of the West covers the period of the Gold Rush.
Hard Gold
Title | Hard Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Avi |
Publisher | Disney Electronic Content |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2010-08-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1423140265 |
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt. Meanwhile, the great Chicago and Northwestern Railroad wants their land, and if the Whitcombs can't pay their loans, the local banker, Judge Fuslin, will foreclose and sell the farm as his own.
Strike it Rich in Cripple Creek
Title | Strike it Rich in Cripple Creek PDF eBook |
Author | Leni Donlan |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781410924193 |
Read this book to find out why people rushed to the West during the mid-1800s. Learn about the gold rush city of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and how gold fever caused people to behave in ways that are hard to understand.