Yosemite Trail Discovered

Join sixteen-year-old Daniel Whitcomb as he juggles a growing relationship with Virginia Reed, one of the survivors of the Donner Party, helps his Miwok friend learn how to read and write, and manages the account ledgers for his guardian, Jim Savage at his trading posts in the California gold fields. Should he join Jim and the Mariposa Battalion in finding the entrance into Yosemite to rout out the Ahwahneechee after they attack Jim's posts? And will he ever make it back to Illinois to solve the mystery of his parents' deaths?