For the seemingly empty territory a spirituality to fill our mind, existence has meaning and the earth a place of wonder and happiness. The better man wins for now at least, an expert in surviving the land of sand and rock, the desolate Mojave Desert can be beautiful if you discover delicious water which refreshes the throat. Zachary Verne and the bride Consuelo avoid destruction as the posse and I use the word loosely unending hunt, bares pebbles instead of fruit. Life is unpredictable, sometimes turning unexpectedly in a different path.salvation. Grandpa from an old, wealthy very distinguished Spanish family hates him, his despised father eloped with the only daughter fleeing into the desert, pursued by a vengeful incensed Don Isidro, leaving the hacienda to kill the outrageous foreigner. However little Johannes must get to his grandfather's ranch near the sleepy town of Los Angeles, population 3,000 ( now 4 million) the only relative he will soon have left, but there are complications. Toxic outlaws, unfriendly Indians and hot deserts, cold mountains, dangerous animals, bad weather a smorgasbord of death. As a boy of six traveling many weeks from New Mexico to California in the early 1840's, inside a single slow moving wagon with his brave dying father Zachary, a widower and a few others including the kind Miss Nesselrode, he will require continuous courage.

Johannes Verne repeats often.I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid he needs to.

The Lonesome Gods by Louis L'Amour