The most amazing true story you have never read. Though anchored in the California gold rush, the story of Frank Garesché and Clara Mallett ranges geographically from France to Senegal to Haiti, by slave ship; from Liverpool to San Francisco, first via Cape Horn, then across the Isthmus; from New York to Buffalo via the Hudson River and Erie Canal; from the Great Plains to Salt Lake City, by wagon train; from the mining camps to San Francisco bank vaults, by way of Wells Fargo stagecoach; and from Victoria British Columbia to the bottom of the ocean on the steamship Pacific, with a vast quantity of Garesché gold. Compiled from dependable original sources, Frank and Clara is the story of America itself, from the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Fort, to the Civil War, to the 1891 murder of Clara Mallett Garesché by a 19th century serial killer named Manson. Every statement of fact in the book is true.