To Truckee's Trail
Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc.
Published: July 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781601452528
Subjects: Historical fiction; Historical - General; Westerns - Pioneer; Fiction / Historical; Fiction : Westerns - Pioneer; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
First sentence: Third November, 1843… “With a heavy heart and much trepidation, I
am resov’d to leave this place, and remove to California, first for the sake of
my Dearest Darling….”
Description: In the year of  1844,  a party of fifty men, women and children set out for California.  They walked two thousand miles, across  trackless plain and desert, fording rivers and climbing mountains.  

They found a new trail through the wilderness, hoisted their wagons up a sheer cliff, were caught  by the winter snows and faced starvation,  with  nothing to rely on but their own courage and trust in each other. 

These are their stories; the doctor-diarist and party co-leader, the old mountain-man who guided them, the feisty woman with her brood of children who means to rejoin her husband in California, the taciturn wagon master… all inexorably drawn to Truckee’s Trail!