Set in the Wild West during frontier times, Yipee's Gold Mountain is told by Yip Yee, an orphaned Chinese ex-railway laborer who hopes to be a cowboy, and Na-tio, an Apache warrior-apprentice who is recovering from his first botched raid. Through alternating chapters both characters reveal different sides of the story, as their mutual suspicion turns to friendship. Together, Na-tio and the tiny, determined Yip Yee face down a wolf attack, a sinister bounty hunter and greater challenges still, in this hard scrabble world of fortune-seekers, soldiers and warriors. Through all this, Na-tio must cope with a terrible crisis for his people, and Yip Yee is guarding a big secret. .

Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes author's note.

In Blue Meadow, Colorado, Slocum guns down a lowlife bandit and thinks that's the end of it. But the dead man's saddlebags are bulging with gold. Suddenly, thousands of would-be miners are rushing headlong up a cold and snowbound trail--and into a blizzard of hot lead.

In the early 1600s, an Inuit boy named Tuk witnesses the arrival of a whaling ship from Europe, and he describes the differences in the way of life between his tribe and the European explorers as they both hunt for whales.