Title: Crown of Dust
Description: From the inside front cover: "The Gold Rush has taken hold of the Wild West. Pioneers from around the country congregate in makeshift settlements like Motherlode in hopes of striking it rich. It's here that Alex, disguised as a boy and on the run from her troubled past, is able to blend in among the rough and tumble prospectors and moonshine."
Subjects: american fiction, fiction, historical fiction, women pioneers, gold mines and mining, frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, California, fiction, Fiction, historical
Places: California
People: Gold mines and mining, Frontier and pioneer life, Women pioneers
Time periods: 1848-1855