When news of gold reaches the East in 1849, a group of friends sails for the Isthmus of Panama, crossing it by river and jungle trail before heading north to San Francisco. In the diggings they learn the backbreaking labour of cradle and sluice, the lawlessness of the camps and what fortune does to men.
A vivid, well-researched novel of the Forty-Niners, the first of White’s California trilogy. Download the free EPUB.