The gold rush
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by Ketchum, Liza .
|  | 979.4 KET | This companion volume to the PBS television documentary The West, illustrates the event which drew thousands of people to California and its effect on the gold seekers, the Spanish settlers, and the native Indian tribes who lived there. | -
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Mystery at Chilkoot Pass
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| |  | FIC STE | At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief. | -
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How to Get Rich in the California Gold Rush: An Adventurer's Guide to the Fabulous Riches Discovered in 1848 | Olson, Todd |  | On order | How to Get Rich in the California Gold Rushfollows the adventures of the charming, witty, fictitious Thomas Hartley as a way of offering a fascinating and fully historical portrait of life in the California gold fields. Archival imagery pairs with delightful and humorous artwork to produce a visual feast for the eyes. The inimitable Mr. Hartley’s guide is a unique snapshot of a key period in the economic development of our country—and a fun romp through time. | -
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Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel
| Ford, Jamie |  | FIC FOR | Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe. | -
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Life in a Japanese American internment camp
| Yancey, Diane |  | 940.53 YAN | Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in the internment camps. | -
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Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
| Hopkinson, Deborah |  | 307.76 HOP | Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century. | -
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Bowery girl .
| Taylor, Kim |  | FIC TAY |
In New York's tenements in 1883, two orphaned teenage girls realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.
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My last skirt : the story of Jennie Hodgers, Union soldier
| Durrant, Lynda . |  | FIC DUR | Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War. | -
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I'll pass for your comrade : women soldiers in the Civil War
| Silvey, Anita |  | 973.74 SIL | Sarah Emma Edmonds enlisted because she believed in the Union cause; Melverina Peppercorn joined to stay near her twin brother. Although women were not allowed to enlist as soldiers in the Civil War, many disguised themselves as men and fought anyway. | -
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