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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost beyond hope, until a twenty-nine-year-old hero volunteered to cross the desert to get help....