River of Peril

Jem Coulter thinks his family is just on a sightseeing trip to the big city of Sacramento. Then armed bandits hold up the stagecoach for the secret stash they''re carrying: gold for the Union Army fighting the distant Civil War! Suddenly war isn’t so far away; it''s right there on the road to Sacramento, with Jem’s father, the sheriff of Goldtown, fighting against the rebel army''s Knights of the ...