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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
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"1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the furthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn...
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Fleeing from a stormy marriage, Essie, a Midwestern farm girl, joins up with prospectors bound for Alaska. Feisty and resourceful, Essie soon makes money caring for horses and delivering mail to the miners' beach diggings. Soon, too, Essie is drawn to Nate Deaton, the idealistic foreman of the Cape Nome Company. But Essie's stubborn and volatile husband is sure to come after her.
6) Desert gold
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A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter--especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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"Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another. The river itself swarms with salmon, bringing along with them another kind of wealth and violent fighting between the fishermen and the fish-packing monopoly. Into this scene comes Keven Bell, returning to face life after being handicapped by a disfiguring wound he received in World War I. Keven teams up with...
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The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice finally seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. What follows is an awakening of ambition for the quietly opportunistic Alice, who, by luck and circumstance, becomes tightly...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Widescreen version.
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1 videodisc (121 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898. One hundres thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt"--
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2011
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This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully rescued. For eight weeks, the author conducted interviews with...
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Center Point Large Print
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2016.
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First edition.
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296 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"The tale of Gladstone Brass, a solitary prospector in the Nevada desert, and the people who cross his path"--
Gladstone Brass found out how to make his livelihood during the thirty years he prospected the arid wastes of the Nevada desert. He pried ore out of the few little deposits he discovered, then went town which he hated only long enough to trade his bits or gold for the supplies he needed. Otherwise he was devoted to keeping these arid, secret...
14) Taggart
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"Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved. But when Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious...
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"When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm
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English
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"Kent Wingfield, a young cowboy, rides into the desert with an old prospector, looking for gold. Then one day the old man realizes this will be his last trip. He reveals that he was once an outlaw in a still flourishing gang. And he asks Kent to settle an old score for him. Kent agrees to go. After all, he is footloose and handy with a gun, and the old man has always been square with him. And besides, in the outlaw's secret hideout lay both a fortune...
18) Lucky Jake
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2007
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36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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While panning for gold with his Pa, Jake adopts a pig that he names Dog.
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Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
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307 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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""For Fans of: Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, and Johnny D. Boggs, Buell opens with a death threat and ends with a promise of a new life. In between, Buell Mace, a confused and guilt-ridden young man, longs to be loved but fears affection more than death"--
"Synopsis:Young Buell Mace, on the run again, leaves Fort Laramie and the only person he ever trusted. He crosses paths with grizzled prospector Arley Hill who's on his way to the goldfields...