Saga of the Sierras Series by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

3.84 · 31 ratings
  • The Man from Shadow Ridge (Saga of the Sierras #1)
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    The Man from Shadow Ridge (Saga of the Sierras #1)

    Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1990

    The year is 1863. In the East, the Civil War rages on. The mountains of California seem remote and untouched by the struggle of the young nation. Tom Dawson has found a refuge from the political and social conflicts running a small ranch with his brother beneath Shadow Ridge.This man with a restless past, his "rugged, sun-browned face creviced from the weather like a landscape," discovers some measure of peace and happiness at Shadow Ridge with his brother's little family... more

  • Riders of the Silver Rim (Saga of the Sierras #2)
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    Riders of the Silver Rim (Saga of the Sierras #2)

    Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1990

    A tragic accident sends Joshua Roberts west to find peace. But in a lawless mining town, peace is hard to find.Burned nearly to death under the desert sun, he was brought back to life by the hands of a stranger. The powerful blacksmith now faces challenges he never dreamed of and responsibilities he never wanted. Hired to work at the Silver Rim mine, Roberts is unaware that the mine's future is threatened by the designs of greedy and unscrupulous enemies... more

  • Gold Rush Prodigal (Saga of the Sierras #3)
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    Gold Rush Prodigal (Saga of the Sierras #3)

    Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1991

    The gold fields made him a promise. But what if the gold ran out?David Bollin, born of missionary parents in Hawaii, leaves his island home to take up a new life as a gentleman in Boston. Having rejected his father's faith, David had set out to make his own fortune and prove himself a man. But before he can realize his dream, he is plunged into an unexpected adventure--first as a hand on a whaling ship, and then as a prospector in the California gold fields... more

  • Sequoia Scout (Saga of the Sierras #4)
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    Sequoia Scout (Saga of the Sierras #4)

    Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1991

    Ten years of trapping had brought Will Reed to the High Sierras. Ten years in search of fortune. Ten years since the mountain men had come east with their stories of the high lonesome. Two dozen trips west had given him wisdom in the ways of the harsh and beautiful land. Now on the threshold of Spanish California, stories about the richness of the mission lands and their exotic Spanish culture lead over the mountains... more

  • Cannons of the Comstock (Saga of the Sierras #5)
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    Cannons of the Comstock (Saga of the Sierras #5)

    Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1992

    California during the Civil War was neither as remote nor as uninvolved as may be thought. Because of rebel sympathizers stealing Union gold for the South, Tom Dawson's brother had already been killed in the mountains of Shadow Ridge, leaving behind a family and ranch in Tom's care... more

  • The Year of the Grizzly (Saga of the Sierras #6)
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    The Year of the Grizzly (Saga of the Sierras #6)

    Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1992

    On a sprawling rancho near Santa Barbara, mountain man Will Reed has found a place to call home--and a family he loves. But when the Americans and the Mexicans begin to battle over supremacy in California, their struggle threatens to destroy Will's dreams--perhaps his life.Human greed and the lust for power hold sway as both the American military and Mexican Banditos attempt to grab for themselves the wealth of central California's cattle ranches. And Will Reed's family is caught in the middle... more

  • Shooting Star (Saga of the Sierras #7)
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    Shooting Star (Saga of the Sierras #7)

    Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1993

    Andrew Jackson Sinnickson had crossed paths with Jack Powers long before Powers' name was known and feared as the genuine article: the first and worst of the California bad men. Total contrasts in character, in values, in approach to life, the two men locked horns from their original encounter in the southern presidio of Santa Barbara to the gold miners' hovels of Angel's Camp in the Sierras... more

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