207 records matched your query
02649aam a22003858i 4500 001 4045AEAA0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210903010031 008 201202s2021 scu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020047122 020 $a 1938235797 020 $a 9781938235795 035 $a (OCoLC)1226076548 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d BYN $d JOZ $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ca 050 00 $a PS3619.A82295 $b C48 2021 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Sauer, Gordy, $e author. 245 10 $a Child in the valley / $c Gordy Sauer. 264 1 $a Spartanburg, South Carolina : $b Hub City Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 280 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence, Missouri. There, he plans to offer his medical expertise in exchange for passage to California in a Gold Rush party. Joshua is initially rebuffed given his youth and inexperience, but as his resentment and greed grow, a chance encounter with a ruthless adventurer and an ex-slave enlists him in a party comprised of provincial identical twins and a wealthy Englishman. The party departs overland along a 1,500-mile trail carved out by hardship, disease, violence, and death. When finally they arrive starving and exhausted in California's Sacramento Valley, Joshua discovers that attaining those riches is not as simple as pulling them from the riverbed, forcing him to redefine his sense of morality within the context of his greed; his complex sexuality; and the growing, though still-fledgling, American government. This novel is part of the Cold Mountain Fund Series, in partnership with Charles Frazier"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Wagon trains $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Overland journeys to the Pacific $v Fiction. 651 0 $a California $x Gold discoveries $v Fiction. 651 0 $a California $x History $y 1846-1850 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012024405.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030836.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20211005010719.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210903010329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4045AEAA0C7C11EC8E70AEE442ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search