Jack London 
The Valley of the Moon 
From the Author of White Fang

The novel The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for its scenes in which the proletarian heroes enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and their settling in the Valley of the Moon.