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• Gold mines and mining -- Personal narratives

• The experiences of a Forty-niner during thirty-four years' residence in California and Australia (The Williams publishing company, 1888), by Charles D. Ferguson and Frederick T. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Klondike stampede (Harper & Bros., 1900), by E. Tappan Adney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practical guide to America's new El Dorado, Klondike gold fields being a compendium of reliable information bearing upon the gold regions of Alaska (s.n.], 1897), by H. H. Paramore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Klondike, the land of gold containing all available practical information of every description concerning the new gold field (F.T. Neely, 1897), by Charles Frederick Stansbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneer prospector (University of Alaska, 1954), by George Hick and Charles E Bunnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Banking under difficulties : or, Life on the goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand (Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1888), by George Ogilvy Preshaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Illinois gold hunter in the Black Hills : the diary of Jerry Bryan, March 13 to August 20, 1876 (Illinois State Historical Society, 1960), by Jerry Bryan, Clyde C. Walton, and Illinois State Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Life of Pilsbury Hodgkins, better known throughout California as "Chips." (University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1909), by Pilsbury Hodgkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage Through Grand Canyon, 1867 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Eilean Adams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Hell or high water : James White's disputed passage through Grand Canyon, 1867 (Utah State University Press, 2001), by Eilean Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Banking under difficulties : or, Life on the goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand (Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1888), by George Ogilvy Preshaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The true life story of Swiftwater Bill Gates ([Seattle?, 1908), by Iola Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Life of Pilsbury Hodgkins, better known throughout California as "Chips." (University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1909), by Pilsbury Hodgkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Charles Peters ... also historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50s. (La Grave Co., 1915), by Charles Peters (page images at HathiTrust)

• The spoilers (A.L. Burt, 1906), by Rex Beach and A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gratitude, by Roy Norton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into the condition of the gold fields of Victoria. (J. Ferres, Govt. Printer, 1855), by Victoria. Royal Mining Commission and William Westgarth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Six years' wanderings on the gold fields of Victoria (s.n.], 1873), by Martin Brownly Rutherfoord (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Chickens to Prospecting (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1958), by Oscar Daloian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Charles Peters ... also historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50s. (La Grave Co., 1915), by Charles Peters (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gold Trail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1910), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text)

• Zoloto : povi͡est v 2-kh chast͡iakh : iz zhizni zolotoiskateleĭ Vostochnoĭ Sibiri i Manchzhurīi S.A. Posp͡ielova. (Izd. A.F. Devrīena, 1905), by S. A. Posp͡ielov (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bull Moose (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1931), by Ridgwell Cullum (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The man from the Bitter Roots (A.L. Burt company, 1915), by Caroline Lockhart and Gayle Hoskins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flying down a rainbow, by Homer King Gordon, illust. by Jack Warren (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marion des neiges : roman (in French), by Jean Martet (Gutenberg ebook)
• A good old scout, by Theodore Solomons (Gutenberg ebook)
• The strike at Too Dry, by Willis Brindley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Especially dance hall women, by Alma Ellerbe and Paul Ellerbe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The lost charm, by Roy Norton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Broadcast, by Will H. Grattan, illust. by V. E. Pyles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gunnison's Bonanza, by Dick Purcell, illust. by Lloyd Rognan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Beyond the Law, by Jackson Gregory (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Riders of Ramapo Pass, by Dean L. Heffernan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hard-Pan: A Story of Bonanza Fortunes, by Geraldine Bonner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Not a Creature Was Stirring, by Dean Evans, illust. by David Stone (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Furnace of Gold, by Philip Verrill Mighels, illust. by J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg ebook)

• Zoloto : povi͡est v 2-kh chast͡iakh : iz zhizni zolotoiskateleĭ Vostochnoĭ Sibiri i Manchzhurīi S.A. Posp͡ielova. (Izd. A.F. Devrīena, 1905), by S. A. Posp͡ielov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Young Texan gold hunters. (Lee and Shepard ;, 1880), by Arthur Morecamp, Charles Theodore Dillingham, Alfred Mudge and Son, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lost Explorers: A Story of the Trackless Desert, by Alexander MacDonald, illust. by Arthur H. Buckland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia, by Clive Phillipps-Wolley, illust. by Godfrey C. Hindley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Klondike nuggets (London, Paris, New York ;: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1898), by Edward Sylvester Ellis, illust. by Orson Lowell (page images at Florida)

• Rise of the Industrial Workers of the World in Goldfield, Nevada (1912), by Laura A White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rise of the Industrial Workers of the World in Goldfield, Nevada (1912), by Laura A White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black, white and gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930 (Australian National University Press, 1976), by Hank Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black, White and Gold: Goldmining in Papua New Guinea 1878–1930 (Canberra: ANU Press, 2016), by Hank Nelson (JSTOR ebook)

• Hunting for gold reminisences [sic] of personal experience and research in the early days of the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Panama (California Pub. Co., 1893), by William Downie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The scarlet life of Dawson and the roseate dawn of Nome personal experiences and observations of the author (M.R. Mayor, 1900), by La Belle Brooks-Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hints to intending Klondikers (Klondike Pub. Co., 1898), by Goldseeker (page images at HathiTrust)

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