Title: Letters from the Corrugated Castle
Subtitle: A Novel of Gold Rush California, 1850-1852
First published: May 8, 2007
Description: A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.
Subjects: Letters, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Mothers and daughters, Gold mines and mining, History, Children's fiction, United states, history, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Gold mines and mining, fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Letters, fiction, California, fiction
Places: California
Time periods: 1850-1950