Wayfaring Strangers

by Tim Champlin

Book Overview

When gold was discovered in California in 1849, the news spread like wildfire throughout the country. There were three ways to get to the gold fields and the promise of incredible wealth. The first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843952105
• ISBN13: 9780843952100
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

OUTSTANDING WESTERN ACTION

Rob Merriman poses as a deputy U.S. Marshall to free his friend the Melungeon Clay Collins. Now on the run they stop for the night at an inn where Clay first sees Lisa Sizemore, who will remain in his thoughts as the continue their journey south. The pair find themselves in Charleston, South Carolina where Rob once again comes to the aid of his friend. Unfortunately the result is Rob being challanged to a duel by Alexander Sloan, the son of a rich plantation owner. Merriman kills the younger Sloan in the duel and once again he and Collins must flee the pursuit as Trevor Sloan, Alexander's father takes up the chase of his son's killer. Rob and Clay find them selves on a merchant ship bound for Boston but a mutiny aboard sends the ship toward San Francisco and the two eventually are headed to the gold fields. WATFARING STRANGERS is an OUTSTANDING book taking the reader from the high seas to the great plains in search of gold in California.

Vivid narrative, memorable characters, surprise plot twists.

In 1849, the news the gold had been discovered in California swept the country and launched a mass migration of men seeking their fortunes in the goldfields of the west. There were three routes to California. The first was by sailing ship around Cape Horn. Fleeing prison and a duel in Charleston, Rob Merriman and Clayburn Collins booked passage on the Inverness to Boston, only to have the ship's crew mutiny and take the ship to the new gold fields. A second route was by stern-wheeler through the Gulf of Mexico, and then go overland to the Pacif. This was the choice of Trevor Sloan, father of the man Merriman killed in the duel took in his mission to even the score. The third way was overland by wagon train, horse and on foot. Lisa Sizemore's parents sold their inn to finance the family's trek. Lisa felt she would never see Clay Collins again. Those who survived their arduous and dangerous journeys come together in California with very unexpected results in Tim Champlin's highly recommended Wayfaring Strangers. Champlin is a superb storytelling with a masterful ability to seize his reader's total attention with a vivid narrative, memorable characters, and unexpected plot twists.