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Series
Horse diaries volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Penny is a blue-eyed palomino paint mare with a taste for adventure! She and a boy named Jesse search for gold in Northern California. After striking it rich and then losing everything, Jesse and Penny join the Pony Express. The job is a tough one, but Penny loves a challenge! Here is Penny's story...in her own words.
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the California Gold Rush. Who was James Marshall, and what did he discover in 1848? How were the Indigenous people of California affected by the Gold Rush? What was the Bloody Island Massacre? Who were the Forty-Niners? What is the legacy of the California Gold Rush? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in-depth with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting videos that...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The California gold rush of 1849 was a defining era in U.S. history. The discovery of gold led to a mass migration to the country's West coast not only from the East coast, but from all over the world. Travellers thronged to the area in the hope of becoming rich, but the truth is, few did. Many more made a living selling goods and services to the gold miners. This volume is packed with fascinating primary sources that bring the gold rush to life...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elisabeth Parker comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband, Nate, to reunite with her father, who's struck gold on the American River. But she soon realizes her husband is not the man she thought--and neither is her father, who abandons them shortly after they arrive. As Nate struggles with his sexuality, Elisabeth is forced to confront her preconceived notions of family, love, and opportunity. She finds comfort in corresponding...
6) Levi Strauss gets a bright idea or: the positively true and unfabricated story of a pair of pants
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of gold in California launched a stampede of fortune-seekers across the continent in search of wealth. Willing to face outlaws, hostile Indians, bad weather, thirst, starvation, and the horrors of disease, these people battled fiercely to overcome these challenges and seize their destiny. But sometimes the treasures they found were not the ones they were expecting... -- adapted from back cover
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Language
English
Description
"It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting 'eligible women' to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts,...
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