Thunder on the Sierra

By Kathy Balmes

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Mexican Americans, Mules, Gold mines and mining, Robbers and outlaws, Fiction, Orphans, Juvenile fiction

Description: In 1852, recently orphaned, thirteen-year-old Mateo becomes an "arreiro," or mule driver, bringing supplies to California gold miners and searching for the notorious bandit who stole his horse, but when he learns that Yankee squatters are threatening to take the ranch he grew up on, Mateo heads for home.