Go West with miners, prospectors, and loggers / Cynthia O'Brien.
Material type: TextSeries: Go West! Travel to the wild frontierPublisher: Ontario ; New York : Crabtree Publishing, [2016]Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780778723288
- 0778723283
- 9780778723462
- 0778723461
- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Miners -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Logging -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
- Loggers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 978.02 O13 | Available | 33111008723591 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Go west seeking your fortune with those who came because of the land's rich natural resources. News stories reveal the hard lives of miners in the Rockies and the desperation of prospectors searching for riches in the gold rushes in California, Alaska, and on the Klondike River in the Yukon. Find out which was the wealthiest occupation--trapping for furs, logging in the forests of the northwest, or mining borax in Death Valley.
Guided reading: S.
What are the prospects? -- Lure of gold -- Where in the West? -- Gold fever in California -- The Forty-Niners -- Seeing the elephant -- Life in the camps -- Mineral wealth -- Life for the miners -- Boomtowns -- Wealth of the forests -- Life with the loggers -- Shaping the West -- Glossary & timeline.
Describes the experiences of people who helped to settle the American West as prospectors, miners, and loggers, noting key events and places along the way.
Includes bibliographical references and index.