Frank Carlson Library

"He needed a New Day... After months at sea, mine owner Ian Beckner wanted nothing more than to run on California's solid ground. He and the Cornish workers had survived! She needed a New Life... After her own arduous journey to the West, Olivia Bradstreet's past is redeemed. She is the headmistress of the Oak Street Home for Children. Her years of social deportment are being used for her true calling- leading the charge for the orphaned and friendless....

In San Francisco during the 1850s gold rush, Chang, the son of Chinese immigrants, wants a pony but cannot afford one until his friend Big Pete finds a solution.

"Hiram Bledsoe founded the town of Sawtooth, Wyoming, and he takes a piece of every penny that changes hands on its dusty streets. But that isn't enough for this greed-crazed madman anymore. He wants every ounce of gold out of the Sawtooth Mountains, and any miner with a rightful claim will have to either roll over--or drop dead. John Slocum's got a problem with that. And when he sees a black-haired beauty's father shot just for standing up for what's...

Jim and Diana Stannard were rendered penniless gentlefolk after the disaster which befell their father's investments. Pressured by mounting debts and maintaining the facade of genteel living, Jim determines to make a fresh start overseas with the last of the family's assets -- his father's old land claims in Canada. Diana, appalled by the prospect of a harsh colonial existence, swears she will not accompany him -- but her foiled theft of her hostess's...

It was there for the taking: $75,000 in gold bullion, the combined payrolls of three productive gold mines, just waiting to be stolen from under the noses of a bickering sheriff and city marshal. Billy Ray Gilmore and his band of kill-crazy outlaws have a plan to do it, too--that is, until Sixkiller comes to town. Hiding his badge to conceal his identity as a U.S. marshal, Sixkiller goes undercover to smoke out the culprits before they strike. But...

Thirteen-year-old Margaret finds a mysterious, shadowy figure watching her as she searches for a lost gold nugget from an abandoned mine.

In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.