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Eliza Somers, a founding raised by brother & sister Jeremy & Rose Somers in Chile, leaves her aristocratic but very restrictive life to follow her lover to California during the Gold Rush. Having stowed away on a ship & nearly dying, she poses as the younger brother of a Chinese healer named Tao Ch'ien who saved her life. As she wanders through the mining areas seeking her lost love, she finds it more advantageous & safer to pose as a young man. She encounters a wide variety of people during her
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