Men to Match My Mountains

Acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America's most colorful and exciting story-the opening of the Far West.Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an unforgettable pageant of giants-men like John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons, who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners, who developed Nevada's Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies.America called for greatness-and got it. There is nothing in history to match the stories of these men who braved wilderness to bring new nation to the shores of the Pacific.|To Jean...Book OneBook One. Revolt In ParadiseChapter 1. The Time, the Place, the Cast1. The Time, the Place, the Cast2. One Man Wants a Wilderness...3. A Good Soldier Is Embarrassed4. Heroic Frauds, or None at All5. An Honest Scoundrel Thickens the Plot6. The Time of Action BeginsBook Two. The Opening of a Land One. The Time, the Place, the CastTwo. One Man Wants a Wilderness...Three. A Good Soldier Is EmbarrassedFour. Heroic Frauds, or None at AllFive. An Honest Scoundrel Thickens the PlotSix. The Time of Action Begins1. John Sutter Takes the Big Plunge2. The State of Society is Exceedingly Loose3. "The difficulty of coming here is imaginary" 4. Schoolteacher Bidwell Lands in Jail5. A Fort Plays Host6. The Scene Shifts to Colorado, "a Legal Fiction"7. "There is no man to whom I owe as much as Fremont"8. Commodore Jones Goes out on a Yardarm8.1,000,000 to Drive out the Americans10. Wagons? Impossible!9.1,000,000 to Drive out the Americans11. The Men Match the Mountains12. Larkin Becomes Consul with a Gold-headed Cane13. Seed Wheat of the Western Migration14. A Democratic Army, Out for No Good15. The Rugged Individualist Train16. "Why is Captain Fremont here?"17. Confidential Agent18. Paradise Grows a Trifle Ugly19. "There's that damned flag again!"20. Armed Conflict21. The Furies Pour Their Pent-up Vengeance22. "It is enough. This is the right place."23. A Curse Is Removed, San Francisco Is Born2424. "It's GOLD!"Book 3Book ThreeBook Three. Color in a Country1. "A frenzy seized my soul"1. The Time, the Place, the Cast2. One Man Wants a Wilderness...3. A Good Soldier is Embarrassed4. Heroic Frauds, or None at All5. An Honest Scoundrel Thickens the Plot6. The Time of Action Begins2. It's as Easy to Find Gold as Steal It3. What Gambler Ever Refused to Play?4. Dedicated Saints5. Give Colorado Back to the Indians6. The Men Do Not Match the Mountains7. "How do we get to the gold?"8. New States for the Union9. Death Valley Earns Its Name10. Nevada and Colorado Show Their Color11. Gold and Mormonism Settle a Land12. Rise of the Vigilantes13. The Glory of Polygamy14. Enterprising and Excitable Young Men15. For Los Angeles, Neither Boom Nor Bust16. "Don't shoot, I am unarmed!"17. "You have struck it, boys!"18. The Mountain Meadows Massacre19. "There is gold in Colorado. We saw it ourselves!"Book FourBook Four. The building of a CivilizationBook Four. The Building of a Civilization1. Pike's Peak or Bust2. "Crazy" Judah and the Big Four3. The Civil War Makes Its Way West4. The Comstock Ha as Many Troubles as It Has Prospectors5. You Have to Get Up Early to Beat Brigham Young6. Inside the "Twin Relic of Barbarism"7. ...With Presses Ready aet the Drop of a Frontier8. "They built the Great Wall of China, didn't they?"9. The Saturnalia of Virginia City10. Billy Ralston's "crackling, pleasure-loving town"11. Manana Land Gets Itself Subdivided12. The Sweatbox of Ralston's Ring13. The Saints War with the Gentile Merchants14. It Is Hard for a Land to Be Born15. A Polished Laurel Tie, and a Solid Gold SpikeBook 5. Giants Stalk the Land1. The Tiger and the Octopus2. Four Miles to the Mineral Belt3. Four Irishmen Become Silver Kings4. A Run on the Bank5. Nevada Cycle of Life and Death6. "Only force can settle the Mormon problem"7. For Brigham Young, Ti