Blackwater Creek
By: Deborah Kent.
Series: Saddles, stars & stripes
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Fiction.; Veterinary medicine -- Fiction.; Horses -- Fiction.; Gold mines and mining -- Fiction.; Hungarian Americans -- Fiction.; California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Erika and her family moved from Hungary to California in search of gold, but in 1849, when they have trouble paying their rent, Erica goes to work tending horses for their landlord and forms a bond with one of her charges.