"The Gold Rush was a major event in the US during the 1800s. This book explores what the Gold Rush was and the lesser-known people who participated in the event"--

The mining town of Angel✹s Landing grew up around a gold strike in the hills of Colorado. Mark Girard had grown up during the boom period and had witnessed it play out. Now he led a simple quiet life with a relatively easy job as sheriff. Then the worst thing that could happen did happen: there was a new gold strike on Banjo Creek. Everyone realized that the boom days would return and the question became whether or not Mark could handle them....

"Lawless, British Columbia, a small interior town with a ski resort that has struggled financially for decades due to cliamte change reinvents itself as a gambling destination, and the Golden Nugget Casino and Resort is born. During on of the thickest fogs the area has yet seen, the Kootenay Glacier fault line is rocked by a major earthquake, exposing a massive new gold strike certain individuals will do anything to keep secret. Now, awakened from...

"From the lost empires of the Sahara to today's frenzied global gold rush, a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by the award-winning author of Diamond. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketed--in three years more than doubling from $800 an ounce to $1900. This massive spike kicked off an unprecedented global gold-mining and exploration boom, much bigger than the Gold Rush of the 1800s. In Gold, acclaimed...

Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone - or perhaps several someones - is out to get them. They find themselves dodging multiple explosions and someone starts shooting at our Nuala while she is water-skiing in the cold Atlantic a la James Bond.

"When a stiff-necked teacher with staunch views against the Chinese moves to Emma Fong's mining town of La Porte, California, she'll have to rely on her wits and the strength of her people to survive his anti-Asian prejudice and stake her claim as an American in the Wild West"--

"Gold Rush California's notorious "Legislature of a Thousand Drinks" launches a secret consortium of frontier barons, triggering the collapse of independent mines throughout Sierra Nevada. James MacLaren, a fugitive from Scotland, embarks on a new life in California, escaping his secrets but not his hatred for the upper class. He is a man always on his guard, leery of the entitled and wary of his own temper. While raising a beautiful, headstrong daughter,...

"In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the dreams of Americans from coast to coast. By 1849, hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from across the globe headed west to stake their claim. Armed with pan or pickaxe, driven by greed or glory, every last one of them was determined to strike it rich—or die trying. . . . For Cord Bennett, it was more than a dream. California was...

"When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns . . . Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred...