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Author
Publisher
Sundowners/Treble Heart Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
They left Virginia with dreams of getting rich quick. When lured by his brother, John, to seek adventure in the California gold fields, Alexander Anderson sells his farm, packs up his family, and heads west cross-country in a covered wagon along the unmarked trails. Heavy hearted and compelled to make the perilous journey West, Caroline Anderson does not want to leave her comfortable home in Virginia and dreads the possibility of unknown hazards facing...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Ulysses McQueen and Stephen Jarvis are both caught up in the California gold rush of 1849, but McQueen is haunted by guilt over the wife he left behind in Iowa, and Jarvis, an ex-soldier in love with Rita Concepcion Estrada, must deal with her family's hatred for the conquering Yanquis.
24) Eternal passage
Author
Series
Publisher
LifeJourney Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Her journey seemed destined for failure. First a shipwreck, and now the steaming jungles of Panama. Would she ever reach California?