Letters from the Corrugated Castle

By Joan W. Blos

Subjects: United states, history, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Mexican Americans, Gold mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, fiction, California, fiction, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Letters, Children's fiction, Letters, fiction, History, Mothers and daughters

Description: A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.