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Power Of The Mountain Man
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William W. Johnstone |
Smoke Jensen is summoned to San Francisco, finds his friend Francie dead and the wealthy plotting to take control of the gold mines, and heads to the High Sierras to recruit prospectors, ranchers, an… |
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Bo and Mzzz Mad
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Sid Fleischman |
When his father dies, Bo Gamage warily moves to the Mojave Desert home of his distant and estranged relatives, the Martinkas, and finds that "Mad" lives up to her name, PawPaw despises him, and Aunt … |
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Seeds of Hope
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Kristiana Gregory |
Susanna Fairchild and her family are on board a ship sailing from New York to the West, where they plan to start a new life in Oregon. But tragedy strikes when Susanna's mother is lost to the sea. He… |
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Fat chance, Claude
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Joan Lowery Nixon |
A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado. |
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Luke on the high seas
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Bonnie Pryor |
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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Above the Clouds (Chronicles of the Golden Frontier #3)
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Gilbert Morris,J. Landon Ferguson |
With her sudden wealth she can have whatever her heart desires. But it may cost her what she treasures most. Life in Black Hawk, Colorado, keeps Jennifer DeSpain and her fianci, Jason Stone, busy but… |
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The Call of the Wild
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Jack London |
As Buck, a mixed breed dog, is taken away from his home, instead of facing a feast for breakfast and the comforts of home, he faces the hardships of being a sled dog. Soon he lands in the wrong hands… |
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Works (Call of the Wild / Children of the Frost / Faith of Men / God of His Fathers / Sea-Wolf / So…
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Jack London |
Contains:
- Call of the Wild
- Children of the Frost
- Faith of Men
- God of His Fathers
- Sea-Wolf
- Son of the Wolf
- Two Tales of the Klondike
- White Fang |
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The hidden treasure of the Chisos
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Patrick Dearen |
In the late 1800s when the words of a dying Indian lead twelve-year-old Fish and his step-brother into the Chisos Mountains in search of a lost gold mine, they face many dangers, including a band of … |
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The story of the gold at Sutter's Mill
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R. Conrad Stein |
Presents the scene in California after gold was discovered on John Sutter's land in 1849 and the subsequent fortunes made and hearts broken. |
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Darkness in El Dorado
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Patrick Tierney |
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes. |
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Vivos bajo tierra
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Manuel Pino Toro |
"The story of the thirty-three trapped miners in the San Jose mine in the middle of the Chilean desert is an epic in the classic sense, filled with real heroes, blessings from God, and the curse of m… |
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An eye for gold
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Sarah Andrews |
Forensic geologist Emily Hansen helps the FBI investigate a crime that involves murder, endangered species, and the leasing of federal land in Nevada to a billion-dollar gold mining operation. |
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Wings of riches
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Al Lacy |
When gold is discovered in California, Craig Turley, the son of a wealthy Manhattan businessman, heads west to seek his fortune, leaving behind his younger sister and her governess, who are both conc… |
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California, in-doors and out
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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… |
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The diary of David R. Leeper
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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. |
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The mountain of gold
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J. D. Davies |
Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled… |
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The Poker Bride
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Christopher Corbett |
During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. P… |
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Longarm And The Night Raiders
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Tabor Evans |
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
As a personal favor, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long arrives in Good Hope, Arizona, to help his boss's old friend, a former Texas Ranger named Don Carter. But Carter i… |
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Deep down dark
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Héctor Tobar |
Relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Ch… |
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