August 1849. A young Bostonian's fate is sealed less than two hours after he lands in San Francisco. Judge Hyrum Milton has a "curious enterprise" for the newly-minted parolee: disassemble the beautiful red-and-yellow-lacquered made-in-China Vista Del Mar bawdy house in Monterey (where the California Constitutional Convention is taking place) and reassemble it as the Vista Del Monte in the vortex of the California Gold Rush, Sonoran Camp. The judge, who happens to own the Vista, also happens to have a vivacious daughter. She and Caesar fall in love amid the chaos of banditos, California...
August 1849. A young Bostonian's fate is sealed less than two hours after he lands in San Francisco. Judge Hyrum Milton has a "curious enterprise" for...
Thirty-six sketches of Piemontese paisoni telling the stories of triumph and tragedy--and always with a bit of passion--of Italian immigrants in the strange new world of a "California farming paradise."
Thirty-six sketches of Piemontese paisoni telling the stories of triumph and tragedy--and always with a bit of passion--of Italian immigrants in the s...
You enter a surreal world where time is no longer a constant...where man and ant wage mock warfare...where the reader is served small chunks of philosophy...
You enter a surreal world where time is no longer a constant...where man and ant wage mock warfare...where the reader is served small chunks of philos...
