Publisher's Synopsis
It is 1851 and over a hundred thousand people have poured into the California coastal towns of Los Angeles and Monterey and San Francisco. What had been sleepy Mexican settlements, under the influx of so many Americans, have become major cities of California which was recently named the 31st state of the union. John Charles Fremont, the Mountain Man's friend and business partner, has been chosen governor of the state of California and is now living in San Francisco.This present volume is number nineteen in the series that presents the fictional life of Jeremiah Warner a virtual incarnation of men like Kit Carson and Joe Walker and Jim Bridger. The study of the lives of these men who were so active on the frontier amazes the reader with the extent of their travels and their understanding of the wilderness. It was second nature for them to cross the Rocky Mountains and pan for gold in the rivers of California.In this volume, Rocky Mountain Return, the Mountain Man and his Cheyenne wife return to their previous home in the Platte River Valley. There they recruit their friends Tom and Mary Wilkerson to join them in the fields of gold, in California. Their journey across the mountains is one of excitement and courage.
