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1) The Call of the wild

Author

London, Jack

Series

Aladdin classics
A Scribner illustrated classic
Commuters library

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

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Formats

Book, Book (Paperback), CD Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

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Stolen from his life as a beloved pet, Buck must learn to adapt to abuse as a Klondike sled dog, to life with a loving master, John Thornton, and finally, when Thornton dies, to life in the wild as a leader of the wolf pack.

2) Goldfield: the last gold rush on the western frontier

Author

Zanjani, Sally Springmeyer

Publisher

Swallow Press/Ohio University Press

Pub. Date

c1992

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

3) Barbary Coast

Publisher

MGM Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

c1935

Language

English

Description

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A ruthless gambling boss cannot win the love of the girl he made into a star attraction in his California saloon during the Gold Rush.

4) The luminaries: a novel

Author

Catton, Eleanor

Pub. Date

2013

Language

English

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Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 to seek his fortune in the goldfields, Walter Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.

5) Gold fever!

Author

McMorrow, Catherine

Series

Step into reading

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

c1996

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

6) The Klondike fever: the life and death of the last great gold rush

Author

Berton, Pierre

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

c1958

Language

English

7) Gold: the California story

Author

Hill, Mary

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

c1999

Language

English

8) Yukon gold: the story of the Klondike Gold Rush

Author

Jones, Charlotte Foltz

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

c1999

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Description

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Recounts the quest for gold that took place in the late 1890s in the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada.

9) Gold fever!: tales from the California gold rush

Publisher

National Geographic Society

Pub. Date

c1999

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848.

10) Gold, guns & ghost towns

Author

Chalfant, W. A

Publisher

Chalfant Press

Pub. Date

c1947

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

11) Gold rush diary : being the journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins on the Overland Trail in the spring and summer of 1849

Author

Perkins, Elisha Douglass, 1823-1852

Publisher

University of Kentucky Press

Pub. Date

1967.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

12) Gold rush fever: a story of the Klondike, 1898

Author

Greenwood, Barbara

Publisher

Kids Can Press

Pub. Date

c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

13) The Klondike cat

Author

Lawson, Julie

Publisher

Kids Can Press

Pub. Date

c2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

14) The journals of Alfred Doten, 1849-1903

Author

Doten, Alfred

Publisher

University of Nevada Press

Pub. Date

1973.

Language

English

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Nevada Writers Hall of Fame & Silver Pen

Formats

Book, Reference

15) The rush: America's fevered quest for fortune, 1848-1853 : a new history of the gold rush

Author

Dolnick, Edward

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Description

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Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.