title: The Bear Flag
author: Holland, Cecelia
description:  Cat Reilly travels from Boston to the California territory by wagon train with the help of John C. Fremont and Kit Carson, and she and her lover, Count Sohrakoff, struggle to make California an independent republic.
  
  
  Widowed on the arduous trek west, proud Cat Reilly is forced to take whatever work she can find amid the gold-veined hills of Sutter's Fort. Mixing company with the likes of Lt. John Charles Fremont and his legendary scout Kit Carson, she discovers passion with an attractive Russian nobleman. Then as war explodes between the United States and Mexico, the Bear Flag Revolt plunges Cat into the epic battle for California's independence.