Bound for gold
Subtitle: a Peter Fallon novel of the California gold rush
By: William Martin
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780765384218
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Peter Fallon (Fictitious character); Gold mines and mining; Antiquarian booksellers; Fiction
Description: Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, 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 Spencer's seven-part journal, which has been stolen from the California Historical Society. Peter and Evangeline head for modern San Francisco and quickly discover that there's something much bigger and more dangerous going on, and Peter's son is in the middle of it. Turns out, that lost river of gold may be more than a myth. Past and present intertwine as two stories of the eternal struggle for power and wealth become one.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."