California - Gold discoveries
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Sutter’s Mill and the California Gold Rush: Separating Fact from Fiction
$8.99 Read moreIn 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. Word quickly spread, and the California Gold Rush was on! Thousands of people went to California in hopes of finding gold and strik… [more below]
- Series: Fact vs. Fiction in U.S. History
- Author: Kim, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666339660
- Language: English
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If You Were a Kid During the California Gold Rush (If You Were a Kid)
$7.95 Add to cartLearn how prospectors mined for gold, what life was like in mining camps, and much more.
In 1848, gold was discovered in a California river, kicking off a period of time when thousands of people travel… [more below]
- Series: If You Were a Kid
- Author: Gregory, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0531243125
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Frenzy: A California Gold Rush Odyssey
$29.95 Read moreThe road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust.
When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to hi
- Author: Lyon, Eilene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493070061
- Language: English
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Sutter’s Mill and the California Gold Rush: Separating Fact from Fiction
$31.32 Read moreIn 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. Word quickly spread, and the California Gold Rush was on! Thousands of people went to California in hopes of finding gold and strik… [more below]
- Series: Fact vs. Fiction in U.S. History
- Author: Kim, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666339652
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
$9.99 Read moreIn 1849 a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and loo
- Author: Cushman, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1328631133
- Language: English
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What Made California the Golden State?: Life During the Gold Rush: A Who HQ Graphic Novel
$7.99 Add to cartDiscover what life was really like during the California Gold Rush in this powerful graphic novel written by National Book Award finalist and Eisner Award-winning creator Shing Yin Khor and illustrate… [more below]
- Series: Who HQ Graphic Novels
- Author: Khor, Shing Yin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593385861
- Language: English
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Lands of our Ancestors Book Three
$14.95 Add to cartKilik, Tuhuy and the rest of the members of this Chumash Indian family step into the Gold Rush Era and the early years of California statehood before returning to their ancient home in the lands of th
- Author: Robinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0578495163
- Language: English
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95 Add to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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By the Great Hornspoon!
$8.99 Add to cartFor fans of I Survived and Dear America, this rollicking adventure about the California Gold Rush is a classic from the award-winning author of The Whipping Boy.
Jack’s aunt is in trouble–even afte- Author: Sid Fleischman Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30, 1988
- ISBN10: 0316286125
- Language: English
