The Valiant Runaways

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by George Inness, Edward Mitchell Bannister and Asher Brown Durand. Two boys ride out of a California mission ranch in the last years of Mexican rule, hunted by a lieutenant who wants them for the army, and cross the coast ranges with a price on their heads. Atherton grew up in that California and used the recollections of the old Spanish families ...