His presence and claim to the Barkley name is the focus of many of the dramatic plots in season one.
French Camp proper was founded in 1832 as the southern terminus of the Oregon-California trail that brought French-Canadian trappers with the Hudson Bay Company into the Central Valley to hunt beaver, mink, and bear along what is today known as the French Camp Slough.
Early, she attempted to seduce Heath, so as to expose him as a fraud, but was unsuccessful.