Holub, Joan.
Summary: Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 HOL (basket)Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What HolubRaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Describes the events of the nineteenth century California gold rush. Reader's choices reveal historical details of how miners traveled, how they looked for gold, and their impact on California's history"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUBrown, Daniel James
Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BROSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3
Rivers, Francine
Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIVBlake, Kevin
Summary: In 1880, citizens of Bodie, California, crowded onto Main Street to celebrate the Fourth of July. Among them were prospectors, miners, gamblers, and even gunfighters. They had all come to this dusty, remote spot in the mountains for one reasonto find gold. Within fifty years, however, the towns Main Street would be abandoned and filled with a ghostly silence. Where did everyone go? What...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 BLAWick, Lori.
Summary: Pretty new schoolteacher Marcail Donovan finds herself in the center of a small-town scandal when she is forced by a snowstorm to spend the night at the home of young Dr. Alexander Montgomery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WICMicklos, John
Summary: "In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in hopes of a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a tragic path. As they crossed the Sierra Nevada, heavy snow fell in the mountain pass. They were trapped. Supplies were already low, and now they faced a winter of starvation. Told through the gripping,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023