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• Gold mines and mining -- California
• Gold mines and mining -- Juvenile fiction
• California -- Juvenile fiction

• Digging for Gold: or, Adventures in California, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Joe's Luck: or, Always Wide Awake, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
• Philosopher Jack: A Tale of the Southern Seas, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Queen of the Pirate Isle (c1885), by Bret Harte, illust. by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Queen of the Pirate Isle (London: Chatto and Windus, n.d.), by Bret Harte, illust. by Kate Greenaway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen of the Pirate Isle (Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1887), by Bret Harte, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Early Recollections of the Mines, and A Description of the Great Tulare Valley, by James H. Carson (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines, by Leonard Kip (HTML at LOC)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)
• A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1885), by Aug. J. Bowie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California, by L. M. Schaeffer (HTML at LOC)
• Synopsis of a Report on Mining in California and Nevada, U.S.A. (1879), by G. Thureau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Kultaa ja Kuntoa (Smoke Bellew in Finnish; Helskini: Otava, 1921), by Jack London, trans. by J. Saastamoinen (Gutenberg text)
• Nigger Bellew (Smoke Bellew in Swedish; Stockholm: A. B. Bohlin and Co., 1919), by Jack London, trans. by Ernst Lundquist
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Smoke Bellew (UK edition), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Smoke Bellew (American edition), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Golden Canyon; The Stone Chest, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• In a New World: or, Among the Gold Fields of Australia, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Thatcher's Fortune (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1888), by Horatio Alger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dave Porter in the Gold Fields: or, The Search for the Landslide Mine (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1914), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: A. L. Chatterton and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motor Boys on the Border: or, Sixty Nuggets of Gold (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1913), by Clarence Young (Gutenberg text and)
• Hunting for Hidden Gold (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Franklin W. Dixon, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Young Treasure Hunter: or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Twice Bought: A Tale of the Oregon Gold Fields, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• A Summer in a Cañon: A California Story, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gnomobile (c1936), by Upton Sinclair, illust. by John O'Hara Cosgrave (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast: or, Showing Up the Perils of the Deep, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Hunter Cats of Connorloa (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1886), by Helen Hunt Jackson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tom Thatcher's Fortune (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1888), by Horatio Alger (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Motor Boat Club at the Golden Gate: or, A Thrilling Capture in the Great Fog (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1909), by H. Irving Hancock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Frontier Boys in Frisco (c1911), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Rudolf Mencl (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Boat Club at the Golden Gate: or, A Thrilling Capture in the Great Fog (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1909), by H. Irving Hancock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: A. L. Chatterton and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• "All's Not Gold That Glitters": or, The Young Californian (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1854), by Alice B. Haven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California, by G. A. Henty, illust. by H. M. Paget (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Gold Seekers of '49, by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Golden Dream: or, Adventures in the Far West, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Young Miner: or, Tom Nelson in California, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Digging for Gold: or, Adventures in California, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Mr. Tom Plump (New York: P. J. Cozans, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Docas, the Indian Boy of Santa Clara (Boston et al.: D.C. Heath and Co., c1899), by Genevra Sisson Snedden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frontier Boys on the Coast: or, In the Pirate's Power (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Her Father's Daughter, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Her Father's Daughter (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Dudley Gloyne Summers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Docas, the Indian Boy of Santa Clara (Boston et al.: D.C. Heath and Co., c1899), by Genevra Sisson Snedden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Joe's Luck: or, Always Wide Awake, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.