Publication

2007-07-18 - Booklocker.com, Inc.

Language

English

Word Count

69,000 words, Guess

Page Count

276 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101601452527
  • ISBN-139781601452528
  • LibraryThing4797206
  • Goodreads2552658
  • OCLC Control Number192101162
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781601452528
  • Open LibraryOL12553409M

Description

In the year of 1844, a party of fifty men, women and children set out for California. They walked two thousand miles, across trackless plain and desert, fording rivers and climbing mountains. They found a new trail through the wilderness, hoisted their wagons up a sheer cliff, were caught by the winter snows and faced starvation, with nothing to rely on but their own courage and trust in each other. These are their stories; the doctor-diarist and party co-leader, the old mountain-man who guided them, the feisty woman with her brood of children who means to rejoin her husband in California, the taciturn wagon master… all inexorably drawn to Truckee’s Trail!

First Sentence

Third November, 1843… “With a heavy heart and much trepidation, I am resov’d to leave this place, and remove to California, first for the sake of my Dearest Darling….”

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