Bound for Gold--A Peter Fallon Novel of the California Gold Rush

✍ Scribed by Martin, William

• Book ID: 110348158
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Peter Fallon 6
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780765384218

✦ Synopsis

Rare-book dealer Peter Fallon returns in a thrilling historical novel about the California Gold Rush, by New York Times bestselling author William Martin
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Bound for Gold continues New York Times bestselling author William Martin's epic of American history with the further adventures of Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington. They are headed to California, where their search for a lost journal takes them into the history of Gold Rush. The journal follows young James Spencer, of the Sagamore Mining Company, on a spectacular journey from staid Boston, up the Sacramento River to the Mother Lode. During his search for a "lost river of gold," Spencer confronts vengeance, greed, and racism in himself and others, and builds one of California's first mercantile empires.

In the present, Peter Fallon's son asks his father for help appraising the rare books in the Spencer estate and reconstructing...