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Depicts the hardships, tragedy, and devastating starvation that confronted the Donner party, which became trapped by winter snows in the Sierra Nevadas, through the eyes of James Frazier Reed and his eight-year-old daughter, Patty.

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.

Introducing a new trilogy called Dreams of Gold, master narrators Al and JoAnna Lacy tell the stories of three major gold strikes that took place in North America in the nineteenth century. Craig Turley, the son of a wealthy Manhattan business owner, longs to make his way in the world. Kathy Ross is the twenty-year-old family governess who cares deeply for Craig and secretly prays for his salvation. As word spreads across the country of the gold strike...

Her journey seemed destined for failure. First a shipwreck, and now the steaming jungles of Panama. Would she ever reach California?

As the world is being transformed by astonishing new technologies and ideas, in one single, monumental month of 1848 gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe--and an eager young English gentleman named Benjamin Knowles plunges into love with the strong-minded New York actress and part-time prostitute Polly Lucking. He also meets her brother Duff, a dangerously damaged veteran...