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61) North to Alaska
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
John Wayne and Stewart Grainger strike it rich in this rousing comedy-adventure set in the heyday of the Alaskan gold rush. When prospectors Sam McCord and George Pratt hit the mother lode, George asks Sam to go to Seattle and fetch his sweetheart, Jennie, but she has already married someone else. Determined to bring George a new love, Sam invites a saloon dancer back to Nome as Jennie's replacement.
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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When a dangerous billionaire intends to use Lee, her fiancée Jefferson, and their magical friends for his own nefarious ends, they decide to fight back before the landscape of California can be altered forever.
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Language
English
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Seeking to avenge the murder of her true love while on a dredge ship searching for gold, seventeen-year-old captain Poe Blythe becomes the architect of new defenses designed to destroy her enemies.
Poe Blythe, the young captain of the Outpost's last mining ship, wants revenge far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. She has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the...
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English
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"Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at least a year, meaning Dawson has the unpleasant choice...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lauralyn LaPlant and her sister, Bridgette, could not be closer. Their shared passion for adventure draws them to scale a sheer cliff one fateful day, but despite their experienced precautions, Bridgette suffers a terrible accident and plummets to an untimely death. Shattered by grief, Lauralyn soon makes a sobering discovery: this was no accident--her sister's climbing rope was cut. But who wanted Bridgette dead, and why? It's up to Lauralyn and...
68) Cabin gulch
Author
Publisher
Leisure
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Joan Randle, in a spirit of anger, sends Jim Cleve out into the lawless country of the mining frontier in Idaho Territory to test his mettle as a man. Then, regretting their quarrel, she goes in pursuit of him, in hope of turning him back, only to be taken captive by the notorious mining camp and stagecoach bandit, Jack Kells. Kells is so intent on having Joan to himself that he kills for it, even some of his own men. When a huge gold strike is made...
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Series
Actual times volume 3
Publisher
Flash Point
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the California gold rush, from the uncharted journey across hostile land, to the laborious process of panning for gold, to the success of savvy entrepreneurs.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the biblical account of the splendor of his temples and palaces adorned in glittering gold and copper, countless treasure-seekers have set off in search of King Solomon's mines. Yet to date, the evidence supporting the existence of Solomon's mines and other early kingdoms in the Bible has been highly controversial. In fact, there is so little physical evidence of the kings who ruled Israel and Edom that many contend that they are no more...
72) Amazona
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family, it will mark the first step toward reclaiming their land.
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Language
English
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The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and brother-in-law's newfound fortune-- as well as the beginning...
Author
Publisher
A Signet Book
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Cam Sutton is ready to make his name prospecting for gold in the Black Hills. But his quest for riches is interrupted when he happens upon a stagecoach holdup and ends up rescuing Mary Bishop and her two young daughters. Before striking out on his own, Cam decides to help Mary search for her husband, who disappeared while mining. Turns out Mr. Bishop was murdered--but not before finding enough gold to make Mary a very wealthy woman. Unwilling to leave...
75) The gold rush
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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Description
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.
78) Mother lode
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
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.
79) Gold
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
80) Vengeance road
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Language
English
Description
"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
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