The discovery of gold in California launched a stampede of fortune-seekers across the continent in search of wealth.
Willing to face any hardship -- outlaws, hostile Indians, bad weather, thirst, starvation, and the horrors of disease -- they battled fiercely to overcome these challenges and seize their destiny.
But sometimes the treasures they found were not the ones they were expecting .
Center Point The forty-niners: west of the big river, library binding/charlie steel
