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Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
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Gold discoveries, Juvenile fiction, Gold mines and mining, Western stories, Frontier and pioneer life, Nineteenth century, Diary novels, Fiction, Voyages and travels, Historical fiction, Uncles, History, Children's fiction, Gold mines and mining, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Colorado, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Family, fictionPlaces
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Hard Gold Lib/E : The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West
Oct 01, 2012, Audiobookshelf
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193543084X 9781935430841
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Hard gold: the Colorado gold rush of 1859, a tale of the Old West
2010, Scholastic Inc.
in English
- 1st ed.
0545249090 9780545249096
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Hard gold: the Colorado gold rush of 1859 ; a tale of the Old West
2009, Disney/Hyperion
in English
- 1st Disney/Hyperion paperback ed.
1423105206 9781423105206
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Hard gold: the Colorado gold rush of 1859, a tale of the Old West
2008, Hyperion Books for Children
in English
- 1st ed.
1423105192 9781423105190
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-229).
Ages 8-12.
A Junior Library Guild selection
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Early's uncle (though he's more like a brother), Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold, and his determination to get to the western territories grows stronger by the day. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money--more than the boys can afford--and when Jesse flees during the night, after being accused of a robbery, Early doesn't know what to believe.
Then Jesse sends an electrifying message--that he has found gold, but his life is in danger--and Early knows he must do whatever it takes to find him, even if it means running away and joining a wagon train with a strange family. The journey is dangerous and full of hardships, and the closer the travelers get to their destination, the more ruined lives they encounter--lives consumed by the hunt for gold. Then to his horror, Early learns that Jesse has been accused of another, much bigger crime and has fled to a secret place in the mountains. Somehow, Early must get to him without leading Jesse's pursuers right to his door. And even if he succeeds, Early will still have to make the hardest choice of his life.
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