Saga of the Sierras

The success of the authors' first four novels in the Saga of the Sierras series has been overwhelming--with more than 250,000 copies sold. Great Wes tern action and authentic historical settings combine in this exciting tale of a Confederate plot to draw California into the Civil War.

Joe McCarthy first became visible to the nation on February 9, 1950, when he delivered a Lincoln Day address to local Republicans in Wheeling, West Virginia. That night he declared, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [members of the Communist Party] still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Anticommunism was already a cause embraced by the Republican Party as a whole; McCarthy tapped into this current and turned it into a flood. Little more than five years later, after countless hearings and stormy speeches and after incalculable damage to ordinary Americans and the nation itself, McCarthy's Senate colleagues voted 67-22 to censure him for his reckless accusations and fabrications. We know today that not one prosecution resulted from McCarthy's investigations into communists in the U.S. government.--Publisher description.

The Thoenes return to the story of Will Reed from Sequoia Scout. Making his home in California in the 1830s, the brawny, red-haired mountain man has seen both sides of the clash between the native tribes and the Mexican settlers. Now in 1846, Will again finds himself caught between Mexican, American, and Native American interests.