In 1849 the gold rush floods California with strangers, and the old Spanish-Californian rancho families watch their quiet world turn violent. Bower, drawing on the memories of a real forty-niner, follows young Americans and Californios caught between friendship, love and the lawlessness that comes when every man carries a gun.
A change of scene for the author of Chip of the Flying U, with a reflective eye on how civilisation slips into savagery. Download the free EPUB.