California Gold: A Novel - Hardcover

Jakes, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394561066 ISBN 13: 9780394561066

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1989

Synopsis

In 1886, eighteen-year-old Mack Chance journeys from Pennsylvania to California to make a new life for himself, finding fortune, love, and power in Southern California, in a novel that spans from late-nineteenth-century San Francisco to 1921

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n Chase was a poor Pennsylvanian who dreamed of making it rich in California. But at the turn of the century, the money to be made was in oil, citrus, water rights, and the railroads. Mack would have it all, if he had his way. And along the way, the men and women he met, the passion he found, the enemies he made, and the great historical figures like William Randolph Hearts, Leland Stanford, and Theodore Roosevelt, he encountered, helped bring glory to the extraordinary century.
"Riveting...CALIFORNIA GOLD strikes pay dirt....This sweeping epic is a dynamite tribute to the sheer pluck of one man who scorns all obstacles. He instills vibrancy in all his characterizations."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0394561066
• ISBN 13: 9780394561066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 658