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• To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative (2 volumes; London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative, by Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text

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

• Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners, and Students (second edition, 1898), by Joseph Colin Francis Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Practical Gold-Mining: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Origin and Occurrence of Gold-Bearing Gravels, Rocks, and Ores, and the Methods By Which the Gold is Extracted (London and New York: E.and F. N. Spon, 1889), by Charles G. Warnford Lock (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trail of the Goldseekers, by Hamlin Garland (page images at MOA)

• The Gold Colonies of Australia (London: G. Routledge and Co., 1852), by George Butler Earp (multiple formats at Google)
• A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53, Written on the Spot, by Mrs. Charles Clacy (Gutenberg text)
• In Bad Company, and Other Stories (London and New York: Macmillan, 1901), by Rolf Boldrewood (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Bad Company, and Other Stories (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by Rolf Boldrewood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, With a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines; Also, Canoeing Down 1500 Miles of the Great River São Francisco, from Sabará to the Sea (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1869), by Richard Francis Burton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Early History of the Fraser River Mines (Archives of British Columbia memoir #6; Victoria, BC: Printed by C. F. Banfield, 1926), by F. W. Howay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-Fields of British Columbia (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1916), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Handbook to the New Gold Fields: A Full Account of the Richness and Extent of the Fraser and Thompson River Gold Mines (1858), by R. M. Ballantyne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Overland to Cariboo: an Eventful Journey of Canadian Pioneers to the Gold-fields of British Columbia in 1862 (Montreal; Toronto: W. Briggs; S.W. Coates, 1896), by Margaret McNaughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• The Adventures of Mr. Tom Plump (New York: P. J. Cozans, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Desert Gold: A Romance of the Border, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Erämaan Kultaa (Desert Gold in Finnish; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kirja, 1921), by Zane Grey, trans. by Väinö Nyman (Gutenberg text)
• The Ghost Camp: or, The Avengers (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Rolf Boldrewood
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gold Girl (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by James B. Hendryx, illust. by P. J. Monahan (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Gold Hunters: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Great Pike's Peak Rush: or, Terry in the New Gold Fields (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1917), by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by H. T. Fisk (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Caldigate, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Parowan Bonanza (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1923), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Frank Tenney Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Twins of Suffering Creek (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1912), by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Border Legion, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Border Legion (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Border Legion (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Border Legion (illustrated with scenes from the now-lost 1924 Paramount film adaptation; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1924), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of '49 (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Gordon Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
• Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia, by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ranch at the Wolverine (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1914), by B. M. Bower (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Ranch at the Wolverine (New York: A. L. Burt and Co., c1914), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold-Mining Town (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1956), by E. Merton Coulter (PDF at Georgia)

• All About Gold, Gems, and Pearls (Also Minerals Generally) in Ceylon and Southern India (second edition, 1888), by A. M. Ferguson and John Ferguson (multiple formats at Google)
• My Visit to the Goldfields in South-East Wynaad (London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Samuel Jennings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gold and Diamonds in Indiana (originally published 1903; reprinted ca. 1970), by W. S. Blatchley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

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