Title: Journey to quiet waters (v. 2)
Description: This is volume 2 in a 3-volume series following the Hargrave family from the banks of the post-Civil-War Mississippi through the cross-country migration West to eventual settlement in Spanish California.  Volume 1 (Children of the River) and Volume 3 (The Fields Above the Sea), both widely available via online sellers, complete the epic story.
Subjects: westward migration, California, Fiction, general
Time periods: 1860s-1890s approx.