The Rivers of the West

Sutter's Mill, where the first nugget was found, was driven by the American River and began the biggest migration of humans in the history of the w...

Miguel Santana, a young Spaniard abandoned by his gold-hungry comrades, and his Pima son, Vitorio, find their lives entwined with those of beautifu...

For many bold pioneers headed west, the sweetest sight of all was the Humboldt River, a crooked ribbon of silver snaking through Nevada into Califo...

Along the harsh North California coast the otters swam, enough to fill the Russians' trading ships with valuable pelts. So there they raised an out...

Andy Parmentier is sixteen the winter his father joins the Union army, working his mother's farm and dreaming of heading west for gold. When his fa...

Isaac Beard … a giant who works hard and honestly for every small blessing, including his frail but loving wife. Now comes another spring in the bu...