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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
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First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild borught Jack London international acclaim and a readership that would span generations. Stolen from his comfortable California home, Buck -- a powerful half-St. Bernard, half-Scottish sheepdog -- is shipped to the Klondike and pressed into service as a sled dog. So begins an odyssey in which Buck suffers cruelty and neglect, learns the brutal skills of a survivor, finds a gentle master that he can respect...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"The impact Colorado's natural resources have had on its development as a state cannot be overstated. This book looks at how mining and ranching have helped shape the history, culture, and people of the Centennial State. From the Gold Rush to modern-day agriculture, the book considers how economy, industry, and the environment have all affected and been affected by the presence of these resources"--Provided by the publisher.
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After a winter of studying hard and making good grades in their eastern home, Kip and Scootie are ready for another summer out west. Barely an hour after exiting the train, they are in the saddle again, galloping across the open range to help their uncles Frank and Bill drive a herd of cattle to market. It's exactly what they want - adventure.
108) Axle Bust Creek
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldier Cleveland Trewe has seen more than enough carnage for one lifetime. Now that the war is over he's found work as a peacekeeper and prospector--the perfect set of survival skills for a town like Axle Bust, Nevada, a place seething with danger. Cleve's uncle staked a claim in Axle Bust only to lose it to a murderous con-man partnered with Duncan Conroy, owner of the...
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Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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.
111) Chang's paper pony
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Pub. Date
c.1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In San Francisco during the 1850's gold rush, Chang, the son of Chinese immigrants, wants a pony but cannot afford one until his friend Big Pete finds a solution.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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When the San Jose Mine collapsed outside of Copiapo, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for sixty-nine days. The entire world watched what transpired above-ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, but the saga of the miners' experiences below the Earth's surface, and the lives that led them there, has never been heard, until now.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"This is the multi-faceted story of Colorado's ordinary, but brave, men and women who experienced many joys and pains while isolated in Colorado's high country. It explains the significance of their work, which rose and fell with the mining economy in the West, especially in Colorado. It tells the story of the evolution of small-scale mining in nineteenth-century mining days, into the twentieth-century, with its urban, industrialized, large-scale...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
115) Orphan runaways
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Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Harrowing adventures accompany twelve-year-old Danny and his younger brother Judd when they run away from a San Francisco orphanage and search for their uncle in a gold rush boom town.
116) The life of a miner
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the hard rock mining industry that developed in the American west following the gold rush, including the operations of a mine and the lives of the miners and their families.
118) My name is Yip
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A revisionist take on the Western novel set in the early nineteenth-century Georgia gold rush features a fifteen-year-old mute boy and his friend on the run after commiting a major crime.
120) Devil's ride west
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Series
Jake Paynter novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far Yellowstone, his two best friends, Gus Rivers and Stacy Blue, show up with a dilemma. Miners at South Pass City are getting murdered by a man or beast - no one is certain - and his immigrant friends from...