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A young woman who possesses a supernatural ability to sense the presence of gold disguises herself as a boy and seeks safety and romance in California.

Jack and the butler stow away on a side-wheeler bound for California where they join the Gold Rush of 1849.

Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in the pacific northwest region. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos,...

"The Gold Rush was a major event in the US during the 1800s. This book explores what the Gold Rush was and the lesser-known people who participated in the event"--

An adaptation of Jack London's tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that was stolen, wound up in the Yukon Territory, and became leader of a wolf pack.

In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate....

Finding Gold in Washington State: 2005-6 Edition is a book functioning as an informational guide for small scale miners in Washington State. This edition is even more packed with answers to reader questions of WHO / WHAT / WHERE / WHEN / WHY and HOW to find, recover, refine and profit from gold while prospecting. The book includes even more gold prospecting suppliers and clubs one can join as well as state rules and contact addresses and phone numbers...

"This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty-niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the first discovery of gold in 1848, when San Francisco was a village of 900 people. These were the people who went up to the hills and came back staggering under the weight of the treasure they carried, and who began transforming San Francisco...

"In this bold manifesto, bestselling author and ecoƯnomic commentator James Rickards steps forward to defend gold--as both an irreplaceable store of wealth and a standard for currency,"--Amazon.com.