Bear Flag Revolt is scheduled for release by Thorndike Press on March 19, 2025.
American settlers rebel in 1845 when Mexican authorities order them off their California homesteads. Fifteen-year-old David Brennan, who came west with Kit Carson as a civilian member of Captain John Frémont’s mapmaking expedition, joins the rebels. The rebel’s ragtag army captures Sonoma, declares independence from Mexico, and creates the Bear Flag Republic. If “Pathfinder” Frémont has secret orders from President James Polk to seize California, why does he hesitate to participate in the rebellion? After General Kearny’s dragoons and Commodore Stockton’s sailors and marines arrive to conquer Mexican California, Frémont finds himself at odds with these superior officers. Unexpectedly, it’s Frémont and the Bear Flaggers who accept the Mexican army’s surrender and ensure California belongs to the United States. Why then, David asks, does the American army want to court-martial Frémont?
Thorndike Press is releasing Bear Flag Revolt as a large print edition. Other editions will be forthcoming.
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This looks fantastic! I can’t wait to read it.