Description: shelf wear Two unlikely adventurers are snared by the promise of wealth in the streams and foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Ulysses McQueen leaves his pregnant wife, Susannah, on their Iowa farm to follow the arduous trails to the gold country. He escapes his domineering father and the responsibilities of marriage, but becomes entrapped by other the perils of the journey, the hopelessness of his quest, and the guilt and loneliness he feels for the girl he left behind.Meantime, the New York cooper's apprentice Stephen Jarvis is discharged from the army in Monterey. On his way north to find work at John A. Sutter's fort on the Sacramento River, he falls in love with Rita Concepcion Estrada. Her prominent family's hatred for the conquering Yanquis stands unyieldingly between her and her beloved Americano.Wheeler weaves a harrowing account of the horrors and untrammeled beauty of the overland trails to California. He re-creates meticulously life - and death - in the wildly isolated gold camps, in the raucous new city of San Francisco, and in the fever jungles of Panama, where those Forty-Niners taking the sea route to the goldfields must slash their way to the Pacific and to the ships that will take them to California.
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Book Title: Sierra : a Novel of the California Gold Rush
Signed: No
Book Series: 0
Ex Libris: Yes
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom&Co
Item Length: 8.9 in
Original Language: English
Inscribed: Yes
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: 0
Publication Year: 1996
Type: Novel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1.3 in
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Features: Ex-Library
Genre: Western, Fiction
Topic: Westerns
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Item Width: 6.1 in
Number of Pages: 380 Pages
