The Bear Flag: A Novel of the Birth of California

by Cecelia Holland

Book Overview

Widowed on the arduous trek west, proud Cat Reilly is forced to take whatever work she can find amid the gold-veined hills of Sutter's Fort. Mixing company with the likes of Lt. John Charles Fremont and his legendary scout Kit Carson, she discovers passion with an attractive Russian nobleman. Then as war explodes between the United States and Mexico, the Bear Flag Revolt plunges Cat into the epic battle for California's independence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395488869
• ISBN13: 9780395488867
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Historically Entertaining

How did the forts work with thousands of people enclosed within stone walls with the untamed wilderness all around? Why did some soldiers dress in rags with no shoes while the generals in charge rode horseback and ate delicacies? How did it feel to be alive during that time in history? How did the flag really become official? This story shows you all the events as if you were living through them. Where on earth did a woman fit into that type of life? Read this and you will have a plausible idea. Fill in the holes in your California or American history while you enjoy this book! I loved it!