Gold Rush

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Days of Gold - Music from the Gold Rush
Days of Gold - Music from the Gold Rush

The cultural diversity of those who flooded the gold fields becomes clear to students when they sing these songs...

$60.00
Gold Dust or Bust   Musical Play & CD
Gold Dust or Bust Musical Play & CD

by Ron Fink and John Heath. Like California Missions and More, this play from Bad Wolf is a refreshing approach to California history...

$39.95
California Gold Rush Simulation
California Gold Rush Simulation

by Myron Flindt. The gold rush becomes a personal experience as students work through this 10-hour simulation from Interact.

$79.00
California Indians & the Gold Rush
California Indians & the Gold Rush

by Clifford E. Trafzer.Adding a chapter to the story of the gold rush, Trafzer tells about the Indian 49ers who provided more than half the labor during California?s mining frenzy.

$10.95
Riding Freedom
Riding Freedom

by Pam Munoz Ryan. This is another Charley Parkhurst story, but it has as much to do about life in the mid 1800s as it does the gold rush...

$4.99
Bandit's Moon
Bandit's Moon

by Sid Fleischman. Feisty runaway Annyrose meets notorious California bandit Joaquin Murietta...

$5.50
Chang's Paper Pony
Chang's Paper Pony

by Eleanor Coerr. A young Chinese boy lives with his grandfather in the midst of the California gold rush...

$3.95
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple  Paper
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple Paper

by Karen Cushman. Newbery winner Cushman's lively heroine hates the hard, slogging work of helping her widowed mother..

$5.99
By the Great Horn Spoon  Paper
By the Great Horn Spoon Paper

by Sid Fleischman. Young Master Jack and his butler Praiseworthy travel around the Horn to California and make their fortune

$6.99
Snowshoe Thompson
Snowshoe Thompson

by Nancy Smiler Levinson. This sweet, easy-to-read story tells how a Scandinavian miner brought news to a small, snowbound boy in gold rush California.

$3.99