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1) Journey
Author
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Five men brave the frozen Canadian wilderness during the Klondike gold rush of 1897, risking everything to fulfill their dreams.
2) Fool's gold
Author
Series
The Skinners of Goldfield volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Skinners are just passing through Goldfield, Nevada, on their way West in 1905, but so many in the boom town need their help.
3) Red country
Author
Series
First Law World volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Resolving to avenge the murders of her siblings, Shy South embarks on a dangerous journey with a pair of oxen and her cowardly stepfather to a frontier town gripped by gold fever and feuds before forging a precarious alliance with an infamous soldier of fortune and his feckless lawyer.
Author
Series
Sapphire brides volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1890s Montana, a daughter who has moved from one mining camp to the next desires stability and love, not the blue stones her father brings home; when a handsome geologist arrives, he offers her new insight and hope"--
1890s. Emily Carver is tired of following her gold-hunting father from one mining camp to another: she wants a home where she can put down roots. When she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in their Montana...
Author
Series
Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For Smoke and his daughter Denny, life on the Sugarloaf Ranch is more valuable than all the gold in the world. Which works out fine, since all the gold mines in Big Rock were squeezed dry years ago. Even so, that won't stop a pair of smooth-talking businessmen from trying to squeeze out a little more. One of them has developed a newfangled method for extracting gold--something called 'hydraulics' -- and he's bought up all the old mines to do it....
10) Hidden treasure
Author
Series
The Skinners of Goldfield volume 2
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
12) The colour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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13) Sackett
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A long-time drifter, William Tell Sackett hungers for a place to settle down and build a life. His search takes him to a ghost trail that leads to a secluded and very beautiful valley holding a fortune in gold. Meeting Angie Kerry, a woman as courageous and resourceful as she is beautiful, Tell begins to dream of a home in the untamed valley. However, knowing that dangerous men would follow him there looking for gold, Tell is forced to preserve his...
14) Shotgun Johnny
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the legendary Johnstones, the first in an action-packed new shoot-em-up series featuring a disgraced former marshal whose quest for revenge turns into a war for justice… NO ONE MESSES WITH SHOTGUN JOHNNY. It takes a brave man to ride shotgun for the Reverend’s Temptation Gold Mine in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It takes an even braver man to try to rob a coach of bullion when the shotgun rider is Johnny Greenway. Armed with his weapons...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Stolen Gold Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series. In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly hired miner to identify and capture the men responsible. Meanwhile, Sabina finds herself not only making plans for her and Quincannon’s wedding, but also investigating both an audacious real estate scam and...
16) Irish gilt
Author
Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The top dogs of bestselling western action thrillers hit the bullseye with Shotgun Johnny, a disgraced lawman whose quest for vengeance becomes a legendary fight for justice. Shotgun Johnny Greenway thought he’d hit rock bottom when he lost his wife and son, hung up his badge, and hit the bottle. But a pretty young woman gave him a second chance. Offered him a job riding shotgun for the Reverend’s Temptation Gold Mine. Gave him a reason to live....
18) Outlaw hearts
Author
Series
Outlaw hearts volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Miranda Hayes has lost everything-her family, her husband, her home. Orphaned and then widowed, desperate to find a safe haven, she sets out to cross a savage land alone, until chance brings her face-to-face with notorious gunslinger Jake Harkner.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. All that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiance (and her father's business partner) insists she come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"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...
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