Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

CHAPTER XV

Ever north, through a fat and flourishing rejuvenated land,
stopping at the towns of Willows, Red Bluff and Redding, crossing
the counties of Colusa, Glenn, Tehama, and Shasta, went the
spruce wagon drawn by the dappled chestnuts with cream-colored
manes and tails. Billy picked up only three horses for shipment,
although he visited many farms; and Saxon talked with the women
while he looked over the stock with the men. And Saxon grew the
more convinced that the valley she sought lay not there.