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The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush by Howard Blum Publisher Comments It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen –are now... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush by Howard Blum Staff Pick Not to be missed by fans of history, Blum's tale of the Klondike Gold Rush reads like the best fiction. A lively narrative populated with a colorful cast of characters, the allure of Alaska and her gold comes across as a wild adventure story that offers... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H. W. Brands Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-527) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Three Years in the Klondike: A Gold Miner's Life in Dawson City, 1898-1901 by Jeremiah Lynch Publisher Comments Jeremiah Lynch was a businessman (and former San Francisco politician) who went to the Klondike in 1898, two years after gold was discovered. He describes his three years in and around Dawson City as a miner and a merchant. His narrative is an articulate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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World Rushed in by J S Holliday Publisher Comments The World Rushed In is a pioneering achievement in historical writing, at once a personal, intimate story of one man's search for wealth and the definitive account of the California gold rush. Building upon the copious journals of gold seeker William... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H W Brands Publisher Comments “I have found it.” These words, uttered by the man who first discovered gold on the American River in 1848, triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California’s gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation by Fred Rosen Publisher Comments There isn't an American alive today who hasn't been affected by what happened at Sutter's Fort east of Sacramento on January 24, 1848. Carpenter James Marshall was building a sawmill when he accidentally discovered a pea-shaped nugget of gold in a ditch.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War by Leonard L Richards Publisher Comments It has always been understood that the 1848 discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada influenced the battle over the admission of California to the Union. But now, in this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards makes... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire by Bayard Taylor Synopsis Taylor was sent by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to San Francisco in September 1849 to report on the Gold Rush. He was already well known as a chronicler of his travels in Europe "with knapsack and staff." This book is a treasure, and it is the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silver threads among the gold :the rags to riches saga of a man and his mines by Mike Macbeth Description Hommes d'affaires Canada Biographies.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Frenchman In the Gold Rush the Journal of Ernest De Massey Argonaut of 1849 by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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Tales of the Gold Rush by Bret Harte Your price: $2.75 Used - Hardcover
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Miners: Tales of the Wild West Series, Volume 9 by Rick Steber List Price $4.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eldorado 02 Volumes by Bayard Taylor Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gold Rush Country by Stanley R Truman List Price $38.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Traveler's Guide to Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries of the California Gold Rush by Susan Morris Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Death Valley Forty-Niner Journal of Louis Nusbaumer by Louis Nusbaumer Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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