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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
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English
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The Land of Little Rain (1903) is a collection of essays and short stories by Mary Hunter Austin. Originally published with photographs taken by acclaimed American photographer Ansel Adams, The Land of Little Rain is a classic work of nature writing. Austin is now recognized as an early feminist and conservationist who understood the intricacy and fragility of ecosystems as well as the extent to which human civilization threatens their continued existence.
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1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
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English
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"1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of...
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English
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"The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn't officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around. Within five years, 250,000 miners dug up more than $200 million in gold--about...
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Publisher
Enslow Elementary
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Discusses the California Gold Rush in American history, including the first discovery of gold, the 49ers, and how the gold rush changed the landscape of America.
Publisher
Elverhøj Museum of History & Art
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"In 1911 a group of Danish immigrants bought almost 10,000 acres of pristine land in rural California and set out to build a brand new community. It would embody both the American dream and Danish culture... In this DVD, personal interviews bring to life the pioneers who settled Solvang..."--Container.
15) Circle of time
Publisher
TSM Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Special ed. 3 DVD set.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (4 hrs.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"A compelling look at the history of The Santa Maria Valley and the Central Coast as told by those pioneer families that witnessed it."--Container sleeve.
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Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Introduces young readers to the history of the California gold rush, describing the journey to California, the process of panning for gold, and the fortunes that this gold brought many different people.
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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Describes adventures and disasters in the lives of people who rushed to the gold mines of California in 1848 and explains how this event sparked the state's development.
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Yale Western Americana volume 35
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
246 p. : ill., charts, maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the Indians who survived the invasion of white settlers during the nineteenth century and integrated their lives into white society while managing to maintain their own culture.
20) The Gold Rush
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Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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