A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel
Genres
- Gold mines and mining
- Fiction
- History
- Social life and customs
- Manners and customs
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Gold mines and mining in fiction
- California in fiction
- Love stories
- Historical fiction
- Gold discoveries
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Chilean fiction
- Gold miners
- Voyages to the Pacific coast
- Vida
- Frontera y exploradores
- Ficción
- Descubrimiento de oro
- Goldrausch
- German fiction
- Translations from Spanish
- Chile, fiction
- Hispanic americans, fiction
- San francisco (calif.), fiction
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, general
- Aventura
- Novela
- Vida fronteriza
- California
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, historical, general
- California, fiction
- Mothers and daughters, fiction
- Fiction, romance, general
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Fiction, thrillers, suspense
- Romance literature
- Or
- Romans, nouvelles
- Mines et extraction
- Mœurs et coutumes
- Littérature espagnole
- Roman
- Mineros
- Vida social y costumbres
- Minas de oro
- Descubrimientos de oro
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