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Book
Title:
What was the Gold Rush?
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ISBN:
9781424258970
9780448462899
9780448465777
9781451788549
9780606299725
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Grosset & Dunlap, ©2013.
Physical Description:
105 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
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Contents:
What was the gold rush? -- Striking gold -- Gold fever -- Rushing west -- Working a claim -- A miner's week -- Striking it rich (or not) -- Law and order -- Boomtowns -- Mining gets harder -- How the gold rush changed America -- Timelines.
Summary:
Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.
Program Information:
Reading Counts RC 3-5 4.2 4 TMP58970.
Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 1.0 157222.
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