prospecting

Readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the California gold rush.

Readers look at life in mining camps, the cities that grew from them, changes in the economy and the effect the Gold Rush had on California's Native Americans.

An account of the California gold rush as told through the eyes of prospector and aspiring writer Thomas Hartley.

Discusses the creation, history, and location of gold, describes tools used by prospectors, and provides instructions on how to find and pan for gold.

Describes the instruments and techniques used in locating such things as metal, enemy submarines, petroleum, tornadoes, and skyjackers.

Records the adventures of a band of four aristocratic Englishmen and their Irish servant on a perilous journey to Canada's gold fields.

Young widow Jean Waterman finds friendship, love, and hope for the future when she leaves Ohio in 1954 and heads to Idaho with her two children, looking to strike it rich in uranium mining, and to give her chronically ill son a chance at adventure.

"Read about when gold was discovered in California, and how this triggered one of the most amazing migrations in history"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a fictional account of the adventures and experiences of young Thomas Hartley, as he and his two companions set off in 1850 for the California gold fields.