California Gold

A “riveting . . . sweeping epic” of one man driven by gold fever, by the #1  New York Times –bestselling author of  North and South ( Richmond Times-Dispatch ).   At the height of California’s Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor Pennsylvanian who is drawn to California by the dream of lasting wealth—a dream so powe