North Carolina First Golden State

by Tricia Martineau Wagner and Candace Camling

A must-have for young ones interested in history and geology alike.

--Aaron Kepley

Fifty years before the California Gold Rush, twelve-year-old Conrad Reed unearthed a shiny rock from a creek in North Carolina. Conrad had struck gold--but he had no idea. For three years, the Reed family unknowingly used a hunk of solid gold worth thousands of dollars as a doorstop. When news finally got out about Conrad's discovery,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455622737
• ISBN13: 9781455622733
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6