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Pub. Date
c2010
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xvii, 218 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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106 pages ; 24 cm
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The Call of the Wild is a world-famous animal story, widely considered to be Jack London's greatest work. When Californian family dog Buck is kidnapped from his family home and sent to Alaska as a sled dog, he encounters incredible brutalities at the hands of men. The wilderness beckons him as a means of escape, but will Buck answer its call? A brilliant adventure story for children aged 8+, The Call of the Wild is a tale of endurance and the unbreakable...
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One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
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