Kingsport, TN: Twilight Times Books, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A book for older children and young adults which combines adventure with teaching about the responsibility people have to preserve the land, and to be respectful of the rights of those who occupy it. When Ty and his friends are on a dirt bike trail in the foothils of the Sierra Mountain, they discover some abandoned cabins, an old map to a gold mine, and a mysterious Lakota woman - and a horrific plan to blow up a dam in an effort to uncover the horde of gold underneath it. While trying to prevent the crime, they friends learn the tragic history of the gold rush and its effect on the land and the Native American tribes that lived on it. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-1933353753.