Streams of Gold: The Mountain Man Series

In the year 1849, an American migration took place, bringing a hundred thousand people from the lands of Eastern America to the far West of California. Some of these gold pilgrims came from other countries as far away as England and Australia, some by land, some by sea. They were all following a vision, a dream of riches that you could just pull from the earth, the shiny metal, malleable and bright, gold.
Just like the boom that took place when the fur trade of the Rocky Mountains exploded ...