Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush

WesternLarge Print EditionAbsorbing and eventful, replete with authoritative details . . . Kirkus ReviewsTwo unlikely adventurers are snared by the promise of wealth in the streams and foothills of the Sierra Nevada: Ulysses McQueen, who leaves behind a pregnant wife on their Iowa farm; and Stephen Jarvis, a New York coopers apprentice discharged from the army at Monterey. This is a harrowing account of the horrors and the untrammeled beauty of the trails to California; the wild, isolated gold camps; and the raucous new city of San Francisco a masterful re-creation of the era of the great gold rush and an unforgettable love story.