1915. How in the year 1849 Charley Adams and his father set out for far California, there to find a gold mine; how they crossed the tropical Isthmus of Panama, by canoe and by mule, to the Pacific side; how they landed at last in wonderful San Francisco, and what befell them there and in the High Sierras: Relating how they encountered fortune and misfortune in that new land peopled from every quarter of the globe. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.