Sierra Gold - John Serge Hubchenko

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Résumé :
A young couple hopes to resolve their differences by re-locating to the west coast. Frank is a well-off real estate developer. Once an athlete, his self-indulgent lifestyle has relegated his sports to golf and boating, and he is not as fit as he once was. His wife, Sally, has become disillusioned by his lust for money and expensive toys. They travel to the Sierra Nevada to find an amenable co-existence in the mountains, but Frank gets lured into gold fever by an old miner who spins yarns for drinks. Sally coaxes Frank to venture into the wilderness and curtail her husband's predilection toward cupidity, but a small band of bandits who have the impression that they know of a stash of gold in the hills follows them. Friends that they have made - storekeepers at a country mercantile, a lady wrangler, an out of jurisdiction sheriff, the old miner himself, and by an unseen ally. An unseen ally is an indigenous person who is a legend to the tribes. He is a nomad who ranges the vast Sierra Nevada wilderness.