Title: The golden doorstop
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Gold mines and mining, History, Juvenile fiction
Places: North Carolina
People: Conrad John Reed (b. 1787), John Reed (1757 or 59-1845)
Time periods: 1775-1865