The golden doorstop
By: by W. Parker Marks ; pictures by Don Moose.
Contributors: Moose, Don, ill.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Meadowcreek Publications
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Concord, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Reed, Conrad John, b. 1787 -- Juvenile fiction; Reed, John, 1757 or 59-1845 -- Juvenile fiction; Reed, Conrad John, b. 1787 -- Fiction; Reed, John, 1757 or 59-1845 -- Fiction; Gold mines and mining -- Fiction; North Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile fiction; North Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 1799 in North Carolina, twelve-year-old Conrad Reed discovers a seventeen-pound rock that leads to the first gold rush in the United States, and a prosperous mine for his father.  Includes a timeline of events from the death of Conrad's father in 1845 through the bicentennial of the discovery in 1999.