Applegate Landing Author:Jean Conrad Gloriana Windemere arrives in Oregon Territory, expecting to face a trackless wilderness and hostile Indians. Instead, she discovers thriving settlements like Applegate Landing, and a hostile frontiersman, Graham Norton. Gloriana finds herself clashing with Graham, but making friends with the Klamath Indians, and a charming, though mysterious yo... more »ung, army lieutenant, John Tilton.
Meanwhile, unprotected settlers are being ambushed and slaughtered, with the massacres being blames on a band of renegade Klamaths. Not until the Klamath Mission itself is under attack does Gloriana learn the identity of the renegades. The only hope of survival is to find the man she had grown to love, who is working somewhere in the rugged lava mines of the new territory.« less