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Often reproduced this hardcover first edition - First edition. A novel by this prolific author, born in New York, who was brought to the West as a child, and the daughter of a noted author and editor in early Califonia. The story of those who traveled on a wagon train leaving Missouri in 1848, before word of the discovery of gold had arrived, and one which ends in the 'promised land' - that is, in the early placer mining years on the American River, but one which focuses more on the two very different men who loved Susan. I