ASIN: B0041T5AYM
Publisher: Amazon.com
Pages: 227
"Through the glow of our embers I could see their hideous faces painted in a white ash twisted with hate as they came at us filling the darkness with blood curdling-screams.Early May, 1852. It was on a warm sunny morning when Oaks, destitute from working a worthless claim in the lower foothills, joins a company of ragtag prospectors to find their fortunes in a river that lay deeper in the mountains where its banks were said to gleam with bright yellow pebbles when the water was low and game was plentifull. Little did he give thought to the perils that lay ahead; how he and the others would stare death in the face more than once before escaping from the treacherous Sierra's, and now, thirty years later living in old San Francisco and wealthier beyond his dreams, Oaks again finds himself fighting for his life.Take a wild journey back in time to re-live California's Gold Rush and Nevada's ...
