gold discoveries

Traces the history of the gold rush in California including anecdotes about legendary characters and fabulous "strikes" of the mining camps.

Presents the scene in California after gold was discovered on John Sutter's land in 1849 and the subsequent fortunes made and hearts broken.

In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.

Presents a detailed chronology of the California gold rush.

Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Mary Margaret Malarkey journeys to California in 1848 to find her father who arrived earlier to make his fortune in the goldfields.

In 1848, fifteen-year-old Phoebe Brown disguises herself as a boy and runs away with her friend Robbie Robson to join in the California gold rush and, after many adventures, they eventually find themselves running a restaurant in San Francisco.

A collection of poems about the Yukon written by Robert W. Service.

Buck, a dog that has been forced into the harsh life of a sled dog, befriends a man seeking his fortune in the Klondike gold fields, and must ultimately decide whether to stay with his master or obey his instinct to join the wolves.

Fourteen-year-old Jo is determined to follow her dream of finding gold in the Cariboo.