Zachary's Horses picks up where Zachary’s Gold left off and continues the adventures of Zachary Beddoes. It is 1870, and the ex-lawman is hiding out in the capital of colonial British Columbia, using the name Lincoln Zachary. He soon...
Gold mines and mining
- Author:Krumm, StanSummary:
- Author:Krumm, StanSummary:
In 1864, headstrong Pinkerton man Zachary Beddoes is tired of guarding hotels and railway stations, so he decides to quit his life of private law-enforcement and head west for gold. In San Francisco, Zachary hears that the best...
- Author:Clark, SallySummary:
It is 1897, and word of gold on the Klondike has spurred a frantic rush of miners to cash in on the riches rumoured to be found there. But by the time the prospectors arrive, all the claims have been staked. Without enough supplies or...
- Author:PRICHARD, Katharine SusannahSummary:
This is a story of the goldfields of Western Australia. Not only of the gold industry as it was, but also the lives of many of the people involved.
- Author:Cade, ScottySummary:
After six months of research, adventure seekers Bowen McAlister, Cyrus Curran, Duff Gentry and Lockhart Dawson make their way to Boulder, Colorado, to explore the abandoned gold mine Ruby Lode. But when they arrive, Duff, a born psychic...
- Author:Stewart, RonSummary:
The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors named Lemon and Blackjack found gold in the rugged mountains of southwestern Alberta or...
- Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary:
The story of the rock-hard men who ripped fortunes out of the rock-hard mines in the old West.
- Author:Richardson, Henry HandelSummary:
Contents: Australia Felix - The way home - Ultima Thule.
- Author:Laut, Agnes C., French, DianaSummary:
Agnes C. Laut’s The Cariboo Trail is a fascinating history of the Canadian gold rush that began in 1858. When, in early 1849, a group of ragged miners arrived in the sleepy town of Victoria from California, no one would have believed...
- Author:London, JackSummary:
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog...
- Author:London, JackSummary:
Commonly considered to be Jack London's tour de force, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog ripped from a comfortable life when he is stolen from his home on a California ranch. Sold to a pair of men in...
- Author:Antonson, Rick, Antonson, BrianSummary:
Slumach’s Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada’s greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man’s hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a...
- Author:Stonier-Newman, LynneSummary:
Powerful and diligent, Peter O’Reilly played a role in shaping British Columbia in the last quarter of the 1800s. An immigrant from Ireland, O’Reilly landed in Victoria during the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush and was appointed gold...
- Author:Steiner, Barbara A.Summary:
At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
- Author:Taussig, Michael T.Summary:
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast....
- Author:Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, Dupas, Philippe, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
Margot, Willie, son frère jumeau, mémère Bette et l’oncle Albert se lancent à la conquête du Klondike! Cette drôle d’équipe fera un voyage plein de péripéties de l’Alaska à Dawson. Sur terre ou en plein fleuve, les aventures de Margot...
- Author:CATRAN, KenSummary:
A tale about a young Chinese girl and an Irish lad who are drawn to the Otago goldfields in the 1860s in the hope of striking it rich.
- Author:BRAND, MaxSummary:
A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is the...
- Author:Lewis, Jim, Campany, SusanSummary:
“I want to gold pan; I want to strike rich. I’ve been searching for a stream of gold. It’s these fortunes I never win that keep me searching for a stream of gold. And I’m getting old. I keep searching for my stream of gold; and I’m...
- Author:Basque, GarnetSummary:
With the economy as uncertain as ever, gold panning is making a comeback. Why not pick up a piece or two of surprisingly simple equipment and check that stream by your campsite? The techniques, the pans, the pickaxes and the educated...