Same Ground: Chasing Family Down the California Gold Rush Trail by Russel Wangersky
Same Ground is a story about what time washes away and what persists ― and what we might find, unexpectedly, if we go looking.
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At the Mountain’s Edge by Genevieve Graham
At the Mountain's Edge (2019, Simon & Schuster Canada*), is a divergence from Ms. Graham's three previous novels, for she leaves the East Coast setting and heads north-west to the Yukon's frontier gold fields of the late 19th century.
Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff by Ken Lizzio
While many North Americans are familiar with the term “Gold Rush of 1849”, they likely have a romantic idea of picturesque covered wagons slowly heading west over the prairie, of bearded miners panning for gold (as the cover depicts), and … Continue reading