TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avi,
TI  - Hard gold: the Colorado gold rush of 1859, a tale of the Old West 
SN  - 1423105192 (reinforced) :
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Hyperion Books for Children
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Colorado
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Gold mines and mining
KW  - Gold discoveries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-229); Ages 8-12
N2  - 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
ER  -