I Witness: Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West
by Avi · 2008
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Description
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.
Topics
Gold mines and miningFictionFrontier and pioneer lifeVoyages and travelsUnclesColoradoHistory19th centuryJuvenile Fiction
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