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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
85) Ghost town
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Love, hate, family, forgiveness, redemption, and sacrifice rock this small Western town. Family honor is defended while the gold rush surges forward.
87) Gold
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An unlucky businessman and a geologist team up to find gold in the jungles of Indonesia.
88) Gold
Description
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
89) Dudley Do-Right
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Follow the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Mountie as he struggles to outwit the evil Snidely Whiplash.
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Sapphire brides volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In 1890s Montana, a daughter who has moved from one mining camp to the next desires stability and love, not the blue stones her father brings home; when a handsome geologist arrives, he offers her new insight and hope"--
1890s. Emily Carver is tired of following her gold-hunting father from one mining camp to another: she wants a home where she can put down roots. When she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in their Montana...
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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.
94) Colorado gold
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Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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Preacher's daughter Amy Randolph finds her beliefs and values challenged when her father moves them from the comfort and familiarity of their home in the East, to a Colorado mining town in the midst of the Gold Rush.
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Colorado is brimming with history...and with treasure! So, the latest treasure story you've heard - the oldster on your neighborhood corner.. your buddies on the treasure forum online - they've managed to get your blood on fire and your heart racing! The lure of lost and forgotten treasure is like laughter. It is better than medicine and good for the soul! --back cover
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"The top dogs of bestselling western action thrillers hit the bullseye with Shotgun Johnny, a disgraced lawman whose quest for vengeance becomes a legendary fight for justice. Shotgun Johnny Greenway thought he'd hit rock bottom when he lost his wife and son, hung up his badge, and hit the bottle. But a pretty young woman gave him a second chance. Offered him a job riding shotgun for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine. Gave him a reason to live....
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
What's a Southern belle to do in 1863? Wife-wanted ads are always risky business, but Millie Virginia never imagined she'd survive the perilous trip across the Great Plains to find her intended husband in a pine box. Was he killed in an accident? Or murdered for his gold mine? Stuck in the mining town of Idaho Springs, Colorado territory, without friends or means, Millie is beleaguered by undesirable suitors and threatened by an unknown assailant....
100) Fat chance, Claude
Author
Series
Claude books (Joan Lowery Nixon) volume 3
Pub. Date
1987
Description
A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.