The Emigrant Trail (Annotated and Expanded Edition)

The California Trail one year before the Gold Rush--a dramatic and dangerous land where a good mule can be your best friend and each traveler’s refinements and pretensions will be stripped away by the tests of the trail. Set in 1848, this western pits the poetic notions and desires of a romantic young man, dreaming dreams of California, against those of a footloose, brooding French Canadian trapper with no need for friend or home. Fortunes will be made and lost, hearts won and discarded. Wh...