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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Gerstäcker's travels	Friedrich Gerstäcker	Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872), a native of Hamburg, left Germany in 1837 for a six-year stay in New York. On his return to Germany, he published two travel memoirs, and the Frankfurt government s…	OL1094099W
Bandit's Moon	Sid Fleischman	Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquín Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.	OL114705W
Chile, Peru, and the California gold rush of 1849	Jay Monaghan	viii, 312 p. 24 cm	OL1207200W
California emigrant letters	Walker Demarquis Wyman	177 p. 23 cm	OL1480003W
The Call of the Wild	Nick Bullard,Jack London	When men find gold in the frozen North of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the South and …	OL14943214W
Northland stories	Jack London	Victim in the VineyardJessica Fletcher is visiting the Napa Valley wine country while doing research for her next book, and invites her old friend, Scotland Yard detective George Sutherland to join h…	OL15031790W
The California Gold Rush	Elaine Landau	Discusses the California Gold Rush in American history, including the first discovery of gold, the 49ers, and how the gold rush changed the landscape of America.	OL15040131W
The Klondike gold rush	Donna Walsh Shepherd	Describes the adventures of those who flocked to the Klondike after gold was discovered there in 1896.	OL15212109W
The Call of the Wild [adaptation]	Mitsu Yamamoto,Jack London	In a specially adapted version for young readers by Mitsu Yamamoto When gold is discovered in the Klondike, Buck is snatched away from his life of ease and comfort and forced into a life of great …	OL15400713W
Rugged gold miners	Jeff Savage	"Examines gold miners, including the discovery of gold in the United States, the California Gold Rush, the daily lives of miners and prospectors, and how the rush for gold changed the landscape of Am…	OL15991954W
California, in-doors and out	Eliza W. Farnham	During her three years as matron of the Female Prison at Sing Sing, 1844-1848, Eliza Burhans Farnham (1815-1864) tried to institute reforms based on phrenology. Discharged from the post, she soon lea…	OL1618021W
The diary of David R. Leeper	David Rohrer Leeper	A young prospector describes his experiences traveling overland to the California gold fields and during the five years he spent digging for gold.	OL1618053W
Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn	Samuel Curtis Upham	Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talc…	OL1618068W
A picture of pioneer times in California	William Francis White	William Francis White (1829-1891?) and his young wife sailed from New York in 1849 round the Horn to San Francisco, where he set up an import business. He later represented Santa Cruz in the state co…	OL1618072W
What was the Gold Rush?	Joan Holub,Tim Tomkinson	Describe la fiebre del oro del siglo XIX, e incluye información sobre los "boomtowns" de la fiebre del oro, las relaciones entre los nativos americanos y los pioneros de la fiebre del oro y la import…	OL16694938W
Murphy, Gold Rush dog	Alison Hart	"In 1900, a dog named Murphy wants to help Sally and Mama build a new life in Nome, but life in the mining town is not easy. Can the three of them find a home--and maybe a fortune?"--	OL17887983W
Martha Black	Martha Louise Black	"Martha was an independent 32-year old when she headed for the Klondike in 1898. She endured the grueling Chilkoot Trail, traveled by boat down the Yukon River, and worked placer gold claims while li…	OL1876673W
Yukon gold	Charlotte Foltz Jones	Recounts the quest for gold that took place in the late 1890s in the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada.	OL1889087W
Gold in California!	Todhunter Ballard	"Some called it madness, some a fantasy. Yet the promise of untold wealth drew people west like bees to honey. Determined to strike the mother lode, young Austin Garner and his family set out to cros…	OL22965W
Life during the gold rush	Victoria Sherrow	Describes the events surrounding the discovery of gold in California, the huge migration it brought to the area, and the lifestyles of miners and mining towns.	OL479769W