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3) Journey
Author
Language
English
Description
Five men brave the frozen Canadian wilderness during the Klondike gold rush of 1897, risking everything to fulfill their dreams.
One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
The story of a young boy who lives with his proper Bostonian aunts and their very correct butler. When their money runs perilously low, the boy and the butler stow away on a ship bound for the gold fields of California and many adventures follow.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Buck, a dog abducted from his home and sold as a sled dog. Struggling to survive in the merciless world of the Klondike gold fields, Buck eventually gains his freedom and becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Tom Shanaghy, an Irish immigrant who has grown up as a hard fighting adventurer, finds himself in a small Kansas town needing a new marshal and learns how tough he can really be
He was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when young Tom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on a fast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had big dreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figured that a knuckle-and-skull...
Author
Series
American diaries volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.
16) The Californios
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1844, nobody believed there was gold in California. Nobody, that is, except the Mulkerins and an old Indian with mystical powers. The Mulkerins needed a treasure to settle the debt on their Malibu ranch. The Indian was willing to lead them to one. But riding hard on their trail was the greediest band of cutthroats north of the Baja. Killing was their business. Doing it for gold would only make it sweeter.
17) Desert gold
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
19) Colorado!
Author
Series
Wagons West volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
General Lee Blake accepts an assignment from the president Buchanan to find out how much gold is present in Colordo and make sure the territory remains part of the union. Denver! Braving the Rockies and the untamed wilderness, they came to the wild frontier town and watched it explode into a city of fabulous instant wealth. Some were desperate men and women fleeing the mounting turbulence in the East, others were adventurers forsaking the played-out...