gold mines and mining

Thirteen-year-old Jonathan accompanies his luckless miner father to the gold fields of Australia, where he learns to be his own man amidst the rough-and-ready society of nineteenth-century Victoria.

Describes the frenzied rush to California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Fort in 1848.

Contains profiles and photographs of children who went to the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary that provides insight into Jack London's 1903 adventure tale "Call of the Wild"; with suggested projects for oral or written exploration, and lists of further reading.

Discusses the events surrounding the nineteenth-century gold rush in California.

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.

Rusty, an old prospector, and Lo Fat and Lee, two Chinese living in the small mining town of Rhyolite, Nevada, become friends and share the excitement of finding gold in the Amargosa Desert.

The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.

Tahir Shah chronicles the experiences he had while searching for King Solomon's fabled mines in Ethiopia.