Title: Thunder on the Sierra
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.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Robbers and outlaws, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Mules, Gold mines and mining, Orphans
Places: California