The narrator, a disappointed gold-seeker in California, meets his old friend John Brent, and with the magnificent black stallion Don Fulano they set out east across the continent. On the plains they learn that a young Englishwoman is being carried off by a Mormon caravan, and the ride becomes a rescue.
One of the earliest Western novels, published in 1862 after its author’s death early in the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.