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1) The Big Open
Author
Series
Language
English
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When US deputy marshal Merlin Fanshaw mistakenly kills an innocent boy during a bank robbery, he abandons his career and rides off into a vast and mostly empty region of Montana Territory known as The Big Open. Hired as a cowhand by ranch woman Billie Hart, Merlin is drawn into a deepening conflict between Billie and a ruthless cattleman who will stop at nothing to possess her ranch. When violence threatens, Merlin takes a stand, and exorcises the...
Author
Series
Cornwall novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Poldark, Sarah E. Ladd's latest Regency romance, The Thief of Lanwyn Manor, explores Cornwall, England, and the secrets within one of its historic manor houses. In Regency England an advantageous match could set up a lady for life. Julia knows Matthew Blake, copper mine owner and very eligible bachelor, is the gentleman she should set her eyes upon. But why can't she steal her gaze away from his younger brother, Isaac? Cornwall,...
Author
Publisher
Putnam & Smith Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Montana Lawmen, Mason and Thorn discover an illegal mining operation on the Cheyenne Indian reservation, and vow to shut it down. Unknown to them, the ruthless company in charge has found the mother of all copper fissure veins, and will stop at nothing to extract all of its riches, including hiring an assassin to eliminate the two lawmen.
6) Rimrock town
Author
Publisher
Thorpe, Sagebrush
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
His stagecoach business having gone bust, Harlan Craig arrives in Rimrock, Montana on the ten o'clock train, hoping for a new start in the mining boomtown. But after a dose of the sulphurous brown cloud that hangs over the place, he's ready to leave an hour later. Awaiting the next train back west, he watches a speech given by Boyd Garrison, a prosperous local businessman campaigning on behalf of a judge - and is just in time to foil an attempt on...
7) The 33
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign of hope.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rush Rago was regarded with open suspicion in the Maverick Canyon country. The long-geared pilgrim claimed he had believed a desert rat's story about a gold strike in the region, and was aiming to sell pick-axes and other equipment to the prospectors. Which in itself was an unlikely yarn -- since there'd been no mother lode sighted near Tyrone, but only plenty of copper. Rago was more or less prepared for trouble -- but he hadn't expected his first...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign of hope.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San Jos�e mine collapse outside of Copiap�o, Chile, in August 2010.
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the state championship before a mine closing shuts down his entire town"--
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the 2010 mining accident in San Jos�e, Chile, in which thirty-three men became trapped underground for over sixty days, and details the rescue efforts and the worldwide media coverage of the event.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"--
"A middle grade nonfiction title about thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible"--
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When the San Jose mine collapsed outside of Copiapo, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. The entire world watched what transpired above-ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, but the saga of the miners' experiences below the Earth's surface--and the lives that led them there--has never been heard until now.".
"For Deep Down Dark, the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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