Into the Past

Old Shatterhand and Fred Harton part company in Santa Fe after the profitable gold-mining venture, and Charles brings about a happy ending to the young German woman’s odyssey through the wilds of Mexico and beyond. Shortly after departing from Santa Fe, he crosses paths with an English lord, Emery Bothwell. The two men discover common interests, and soon are riding west together, and towards California. Along the way they team up with a group of young German adventurers intent on not getting involved in the Civil War, which is still raging around them. The riders are successful in evading the turmoil, and along the way uncover a number of threads that connect the young Germans to Old Shatterhand’s own homeland of Saxony. As they are making their way north to San Francisco after crossing the Rio Colorado, two strangers join them at camp; while telling tales around the fire, Emery Bothwell hears to his amazement that he might be closer than he thought to finding the answer to a murder case and a vanished treasure, which had in the first place necessitated his ride to California.