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Hard gold : the Colorado gold rush of 1859, a tale of the Old West / Avi. |
| Authors: | Avi, 1937- |
| Call number: | jFIC AVI |
| Publisher: | New York, N.Y. : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008. |
| Publication date: | c2008. |
| Subject: |
Gold mines and mining -- Colorado -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado -- Fiction. Juvenile literature. Colorado -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction. |
| Series title: | Avi, 1937 I witness novel. |
| Title: | Hard gold : the Colorado gold rush of 1859, a tale of the Old West / Avi. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 229 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Target audience note: | Ages 8-12. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-229). |
| Awards note: | Young Hoosier Book Award, 2012-2013, 4-6 Nominee. A Junior Library Guild selection |
| ISBN: | 9781423105190 (reinforced) : 1423105192 (reinforced) : 9781423105206 (pbk.) |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1165618 |
| Bib No.: | 1165618 |