Wagons West California!

Name: Wagons West California!
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Dana Fuller Ross
ISBN: 9781441824646

Author: Dana Fuller Ross

Series: Wagons West Series #6

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 12/07/2010

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

CALIFORNIA! Gold fever. It swept the country from coast to coast, luring more than a hundred thousand seekers to the untamed territory of California. For them, the Gold Rush of 1848 represented the American Dream come true. But for the settlers who lived there, it was an all-out assault on the homes they’d struggled so hard to build. Now boomtowns arise overnight, teeming with outlaws, killers, and desperate men. In Sacramento Valley, former Texas Ranger Rick Miller struggles to keep the peace with nothing more than a six shooter and guts. Melissa Austen, who survived the Oregon Trail, is forced into a life of prostitution. And wagon master Whip Holt must battle the odds to save her — and stem the tide of bloodshed and greed. For these brave homesteaders, freedom is the real golden opportunity — and America the only dream worth fighting for…

About Dana Fuller Ross

Dana Fuller Ross was the pseudonym of Noel Bertram Gerson. Gerson, a prolific writer, wrote numerous works under many pseudonyms including the White Indian novels, which he wrote as Donald Clayton Porter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dean

“A fellow establishes a claim, that piece of land becomes his property. He sets to work a-diggin’ with a shovel or a pickax and he shifts the dirt he digs up. If there’s water runnin’ through the property, he takes a pan that looks like a sieve and holds it in the stream. If his luck is good, he com......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

I'm enjoying this whole series but this book struck me a little more than the previous five I've read so far. Perhaps because some of this story was so unexpected (as most of the story lines and happenings could be guessed beforehand) and...jarring. I'm not sure. This whole series has story lines th......more

Goodreads review by Sophia

Califonia! by Dana Fuller Ross, is one of my favorites, It has multiple small storylines with different people then connect them all when they move to California. The main story line is old friends from the Oregon Trail and the mexican war reunite in california for multiple reasons. Some are there l......more

Goodreads review by Connie

I felt like this was the best of the series. Enjoyed all of the story lines. It is so funny how quickly the couples get married.......more