The Golden Staters — Lee Davis Willoughby

COULD THEY CONQUER THE WILD WESTERN COLOSSUS?

The land was as rich and diverse as the people who came there seeking a new life - and fraught with peril. To this vast territory on the shores of the Pacific, soon to be known as The Golden State, came Robert Sanderson, a man of iron will, determined to build a dynasty that would grow and endure as long as the land.

Robert and his son Reb strove mightily, until they stood among the great tycoons of California - Huntington, Stanford, Crocker. But within the clan was a hidden seed of destruction, that drew father and son to two irresistible women: Pilar, in whose veins flowed the fiery blood of the conquistadors, and Lida, the beautiful actress who was the toast of San Francisco - and a dark omen of the Sanderson dynasty.