Fort Ross Author:Mark West William Hogan, U.S. marshal sent out west to provide an "American presence" before California is a state, is the only one willing to investigate the murder of the Commandant at the Russian settlement of Fort Ross on the California Coast. There he meets a beautiful Russian woman and her lover, becomes embroiled in an investigation that includes a... more »n Indian renegade and a wily French-Canadian fur trader that ends in a stunning and unanticipated climax.« less