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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
2) Sackett
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The Sacketts volume 9
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English
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William Tell Sackett, oldest of five brothers including Tyrel and Orrin, finds an old gold mine deep in the mountains of Colorado, once worked by conquistadors hundreds of years before. He also finds a young girl, Angie Kerry, who came with her grandfather to mine the gold. The grandfather has died, and she fights a daily battle for survival until Tell rescues her. Tell has a knack for collecting dangerous enemies. The Bigalows, a group of rough brothers...
3) Desert gold
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A FACE haunted Cameron - a woman's face. It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire; it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light; it drifted in the darkness beyond. This hour, when the day had closed and the lonely desert night set in with its dead silence, was one in which Cameron's mind was thronged with memories of a time long past - of a home back in Peoria, of a woman he had wronged and lost, and loved too late. He...
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Greed and gold unleash a storm of robbery, vengeance, and murder. On the word of a dying Indian, the three Emerson brothers come to Thunder Mountain in the Sawtooth Range and discover more gold than they ever dreamed possible. But instead of finding peace and prosperity, Jake, Kalispel, and Sam Emerson find more treachery than any normal men could hope to survive.
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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road to Warm's gold claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does - and for whom he does it.
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Boyds Mills
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Having little regard for Ebenezer Overall's strange habit of hoarding junk, the townspeople don't pay much mind to the old prospector and his shack, but when the rains come and wash away the town, it is Ebenezer's hidden barrels of treasure that save the community.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 27
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English
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The town of Rafter Crossing had been simmering for some time when Mike Shevlin rode in. The quiet ranching community has turned into a booming mining town, and the newfound wealth has made Rafter Crossing anything but peaceful. The cattlemen are bound and determined to close down the mines because they're poisoning the range water. And the miners are stealing the high-grade ore that rightfully belongs to Laine Tennison. Mike Shevlin's mission is to...
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House of Winslow volume 17
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When Cassidy Winslow promises a dying man he will take care of his daughter, he quickly learns that his is in for more than he had anticipated. He brought them to the Klondike Gold fields, but this was no place for a woman.
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Five Star
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2010
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John Owens, better known by his nickname of Johnny Montana, has a rough job in store for him. He and his partners have pulled nearly $50,000 in gold out of Redhawk Creek, and now they have to get it out of Montana, past Brett Cutter and his gang of cutthroats, who have been picking off prospectors and stealing their gold.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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A few decades before the gold rush in the 1870s, there are prospectors out in the Pacific Northwest trying to make a name for themselves. One of them suddenly finds himself in a world of trouble when a notorious pair of brothers marks him for death. The Sisters brothers are known all throughout the area for their wicked ways, and now they believe that he has crossed them. In order to escape their wrath, he'll need to draw upon resources he's not even...
12) The gold rush
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Criterion collection volume 615
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Criterion Collection
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English
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Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
13) Captive heart
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Covenant
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c2011
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English
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Emmalyne Madsen sends a desperate plea heavenward as a band of lawless men makes their way up the aisle of the railcar. When one hauls her roughly from the seat, threatening and cursing, Emmalyne fears her adventure out West has just turned into a nightmare. Thayne Kendrich has an urgent need for a school teacher, and he's not above doing whatever it takes to get one-including forcing her at gunpoint across the scorching prairie. But the teacher he...
14) Mother lode
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Warner Home Video
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2011
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English
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After surviving a plane crash in the wilderness of British Columbia, two young adventurers wind up in more trouble when they meet a reclusive gold miner who is determined to keep people away from his mine.
15) The Badlanders
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2009]
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English
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Arizona Territory, 1898. Peter Van Hoek is set up for a crime and does his time in Yuma Prison. Now, he's ready for payback. He cons the mining boss who set him up, by selling him a fortune in gold that comes from the boss's own mine. An ex-inmate will provide muscle for the scheme. A downtrodden local will use his skill with TNT to be the job's Powder Monkey. Well, it's the plan anyway.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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The secret of Kansas Gulch: The year is 1859 in Colorado Territory. Only Jay Meade knows the secret of Kansas Gulch. If anyone at Poverty Gulch discovers Kansas Gulch, there will be a rush to the new diggings and Meade will have to share the gold with all of the other miners.
Look behind every hill: Carmody Steele has homesteaded right in the middle of what two big ranchers in the area regard as open range. Men from the two ranches warn Steele that...
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