"A reference for readers interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in the Pacific Northwest region. Fully revised and updated, this guide contains accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos, and geological background"--...

Heck and Early are down and out. With their debts catching up to them and no good prospects, they set out across the territory to earn a wage. The pay ain't good, but something's better than nothing. When they find work as lawmen in a boomtown in the Devil's Mountains, the unlikely partners realize they've pinned on badges in a town terrorized by a mining outfit run by ruffians with a grudge. If this gold rush town is going to be settled, it's going...

It takes a brave man to ride shotgun for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It takes an even braver man to try to rob a coach of bullion when the shotgun rider is Johnny Greenway. Armed with his weapons of choice, Shotgun Johnny ain't stopping for no one ...

"For generations, the Jensens have struggled to build their home, their land, and their dreams. But now the family is forced to fight fire with fire, bullet by bullet, blood for blood. For Smoke and his daughter Denny, life on the Sugarloaf Ranch is more valuable than all the gold in the world. Which works out fine, since all the gold mines in Big Rock were squeezed dry years ago. Even so, that won't stop a pair of smooth-talking businessmen from...

"Abandoned by their father for the gold rush, Gentry and her siblings labor to survive alone in the inhospitable west. When bizarre natural disasters begin wreaking havoc on the land, Gentry discovers a world of magic. Desperate for help, she accepts aid from a mysterious stranger. Winn not only sees the magic, but controls its hunger by feeding it gold--the very thing Gentry's father left to acquire. But the earth's unrest only grows worse, and Gentry's...

A prospector nicknamed Burning Daylight strikes it rich during the Alaskan Gold Rush, but after he's cheated out of his fortune by crooks on Wall Street, he becomes a scroundrel. Moving to Oakland, California, he buys property, and sets up utilities and public transportation systems through overbearing and shady tactics. He becomes self-indulgent with drink and food. And then, for the first time, he falls in love.

"Christian family bound for California. It's 1905, and a rush for gold is underway when they reach the rough and tumble town of Goldfield, Nevada"--Container.