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1) Desert gold
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"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...
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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
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This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully rescued. For eight weeks, the author conducted interviews with...
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[2018]
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A few decades before the gold rush in the 1870s, there are prospectors out in the Pacific Northwest trying to make a name for themselves. One of them suddenly finds himself in a world of trouble when a notorious pair of brothers marks him for death. The Sisters brothers are known all throughout the area for their wicked ways, and now they believe that he has crossed them. In order to escape their wrath, he'll need to draw upon resources he's not even...
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A gang of gold-hungry cowboys slaughters a small band of Apaches. During the massacre, an Indian woman promises to lead them to a hidden gold mine if they will spare her life. As they journey to the mine, they are pursued by the only surviving Apache warrior. They soon discover that Apache revenge is painful, slow and fatal.
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House of Winslow volume 17
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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"To fulfill his promise to a dying man, Cass Winslow locates the man's daughter and takes her with him in search of Klondike gold"--Provided by publisher.
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2020.
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"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 an abusive young man's villainous secret"--
10) Paint Your Wagon
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2001
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Marvin and Eastwood play gold prospectors in the 1800's who are married to the same woman. Songs include They Call the Wind Mariah and I Talk to the Trees.
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2012
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In the Redhawk mining district, he is known as Johnny Montana. It is the name given to him by those who folloed him to the Northwest gold fields in the spring of 1863. Now, with a harsh Montana winter about to descend, all Johnny and his partners want to do is go home. And all that stands in their way is a highly organized gang of thieves and murderers. Others have tried to escape the Redhawk district with their summer's cache of gold. None have succeeded....
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Journey to the white clouds volume 1
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""For Fans of: Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, and Johnny D. Boggs, Buell opens with a death threat and ends with a promise of a new life. In between, Buell Mace, a confused and guilt-ridden young man, longs to be loved but fears affection more than death"--
"Synopsis:Young Buell Mace, on the run again, leaves Fort Laramie and the only person he ever trusted. He crosses paths with grizzled prospector Arley Hill who's on his way to the goldfields...
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Trail drive series volume 13
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[1999]
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"The year is 1853. for a handful of cowboys turned Gold rushers, it's time to go home--until Western legend Jim Bridger informs them of lush graze along the Green River in northern Utah. It's a territory rich in minerals, with the largest open-pit copper mine in the country. It's a place where a humble man could build a ranch that would be the envy of the frontier. . . But with Indian trouble, law trouble, Mormon trouble, cattle trouble, and woman...
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Forty-Niners volume 1
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"In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the dreams of Americans from coast to coast. By 1849, hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from across the globe headed west to stake their claim. Armed with pan or pickaxe, driven by greed or glory, every last one of them was determined to strike it rich—or die trying. . . . For Cord Bennett, it was more than a dream. California was...
18) The last hurrah
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A Phoebe Korneal mystery volume 1
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[2020].
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"High in the Rocky Mountains, Green County reveled in a proud history of prospecting and mining dating back to the 1860s Gold Rush, and seemed like the perfect place for Phoebe Korneal to start her life over. Heartbreak and disillusionment in Utah became the inspiration that catapulted her over the mountain peaks to join the Green County, Colorado, Sheriff's Office as a deputy and detective, reuniting her with her close childhood friends, reporter...
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Fortunes of the Black Hills volume 1
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In search of a new life out west, Brazos Fortune finds his family endangered by the very quest he hoped would save them.