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![]() | Sierra (1996) A Novel of the California Gold Rush A novel by Richard S Wheeler |
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 forces: 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.
Genre: Historical
Genre: Historical
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Hardback Editions
March 1997 : Hardback
| Title: Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush (Thorndike Large Print Western Series) Author(s): Richard S. Wheeler ISBN: 0-7862-0916-X / 978-0-7862-0916-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Pr Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1996 : Hardback
| Title: Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush Author(s): Richard S. Wheeler ISBN: 0-312-86185-0 / 978-0-312-86185-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Forge Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush Author(s): Richard Wheeler ISBN: 0-595-32906-3 / 978-0-595-32906-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Backinprint.com Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1998 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Sierra Author(s): Richard S. Wheeler ISBN: 0-8125-4288-6 / 978-0-8125-4288-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Forge Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1996 : Paperback
| Title: Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush Author(s): Richard S. Wheeler Publisher: Forge Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
May 2012 : Kindle edition
| Title: Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush Author(s): Richard S. Wheeler Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1998 : Unknown
| Title: Sierra Author(s): Richard S. Wheeler Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC Availability: Amazon More details... |
1996 : Unknown
| Title: Sierra - A Novel of the California Gold Rush Author(s): Publisher: Forge Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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