Another young woman grows up the hard way in For California's Gold, by JoAnn Levy, a novel set during the gold rush of 1849. Timid Sarah Daniels makes the long trek to the west coast with her husband and four children, enduring cholera, Indian attacks, starvation and many other hardships. It is only when she finally settles in Nevada City that she begins to accept her new western home in this quietly eloquent tale.