Forum: Lost Stories

Another story I'm looking for is about I wouldn't really call it a wagon train it's a single wagon with about half dozen people in it it's wagging master and two scouts anyway they go to California the man has killed by his father-in-law and the son is taking to the desert but he makes it back he finds an uncle that is like a giant living up in the mountains have some kind of I don't know what you call it when you grow real big he wants up dying sitting out on top of mountain looking out boys taking in by one of the people in the wagon she's opened the bookstore the other lady in the wagon she opened the restaurant there's a guy that's a school teacher the one well he's a bully I guess what you want to call him they'll play parts in the story boy meets a girl her dad's a ship captain takes place out in California can you help me find this one also

I'd have a better chance of making sense of your story description it it had punctuation in it. Complete sentences would help, too.

Possible translation.
Single wagon heading to California. (19th Century setting? Before or after Civil War?)
Escorted by a wagonmaster & two scouts.
Father (On the wagon? In California?) is killed by his father-in-law.
Son is abandoned in the desert (By his grandfather?), but survives.
Son meets an uncle living as a mountainman, suffers from gigantism, who dies.
Son is fostered by one of three people who had also been on the wagon, a lady bookstore owner. Others are a lady restaurant owner and a male school teacher.
Son has a girlfriend / acquaintance whos father is a ships captain working out of Californian ports.

Doesn't ring a bell for me.

I think I read this one several years ago, just a guess but it could possibly be a set of stories by https://storiesonline.net/a/The_Old_Guy and would then be Premier only.
1. https://storiesonline.net/s/48813/i-fell-through
2. https://storiesonline.net/s/48822/a-new-life
3. https://storiesonline.net/s/49170/what-the-future-may-bring (unfinished).
This is more a case of "I don't think it could be anything else" than "that's it!".