North Carolina, the First Golden State

Gold! Gold! Gold in North Carolina! Fifty years before the California Gold Rush, twelve-year-old Conrad Reed unearthed a shiny rock from a creek in North Carolina. Conrad had no idea he’d struck gold. When the news got, Conrad’s discovery set off the nation’s first gold rush – fifty years before California’s Gold Rush of 1849.

ISBN: 978-1455622733
Paperback: 32 pages
$16.99