Thunder on the Sierra
By: by Kathy Balmes ; illustrated by Vicki Catapano.
Contributors: Catapano, Vicki, ill.
Edition: 1st Silver Moon Press ed.
Series: Adventures in America
Publisher: Silver Moon Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Juvenile fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Fiction.; Mexican Americans -- Fiction.; Mules -- Fiction.; Gold mines and mining -- California -- Fiction.; Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; California -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 1852, recently orphaned, thirteen-year-old Mateo becomes an "arreiro," or mule driver, bringing supplies to California gold miners and searching for the notorious bandit who stole his horse, but when he learns that Yankee squatters are threatening to take the ranch he grew up on, Mateo heads for home.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.88-89).