The final novel in the 'California Trilogy.' About the first southern California land boom in the 1880s.The Rose Dawn is a story of the old American West, it is not a Western. Rather it follows the fortunes of Colonel Peyton, a thoughtful, courteous, and thoroughly old-fashioned gentleman-in the days before and during the boom. Last but not the least, it is the coming of age story; of a boy and a girl, and of California. [The three books, Gold (1913), The Gray Dawn (1915) and The Rose Dawn (1920) were later included in the omnibus The Story of California.