01609cam a2200361 i 4500 508134230 TxAuBib 20210805120000.0 210607s2021||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2021936986 9781638080176 $34.95 1638080178 $34.95 TxAuBib rda Steel, Charlie,. The Forty-niners [Book] : a novel based on the California gold seekers / Charlie Steel. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021. 184 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier West of the big river The discovery of gold in California launched a stampede of fortune-seekers across the continent in search of wealth. Willing to face any hardship -- outlaws, hostile Indians, bad weather, thirst, starvation, and the horrors of disease -- they battled fiercely to overcome these challenges and seize their destiny. But sometimes the treasures they found were not the ones they were expecting . . . 20210805. Gold mines and mining California History 19th century Fiction. Outlaws Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Large type books. California Fiction. United States History 1865-1921 Fiction. West of the big river. TXCTM