Carol L Buchanan

A Pinch of Dust

It's Christmas Eve, 1864, in Virginia City, the gold mining center of Montana Territory. When a young girl begs Daniel Stark for "a pinch of dust," he is torn between his duty to his own family and his sympathy for the child's plight. Just giving her gold dust will not change her situation, but mayb...

Gold Under Ice

Money. Greenbacks vs. gold. The Lincoln administration prints greenbacks to pay for its war with the Confederacy, and on Wall Street a renegade money market known as the Gold Room pits the greenback against gold. By January 1864, the greenback loses nearly half its value. While far to the west, in A...

The Devil in the Bottle

After Vigilantes ended a criminal conspiracy in Alder Gulch during the winter of 1863-1864, they founded a “People’s Court” to administer justice. At the same time, Joseph (aka Jack) Slade has settled near Alder Gulch with his wife and adopted son. As a manager with the Overland Stage Co., he ruled ...

God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana

Winner of the 2009 Spur Award for Best First Novel by the Western Writers of America, as a “work whose inspirations, image and literary excellence best represent the reality and spirit of the American West." December 1863. Daniel Stark, New York lawyer and radical abolitionist, has come to the gold ...

Fear of Horses

Claire battles her equine phobia to make friends with an unmanageable horse and save him from the slaughterers."Fear of Horses" won the 2009 LAURA award for the best short story in the first annual short fiction contest sponsored by Women Writing the West, an organization of writers devoted to stori...

Stranger Riding By

Lou and her 7-year-old son, Willie, are alone on their ranch near Malta, MT, when a well-dressed stranger stops. Hospitality being an unwritten law in their part of the country, Lou offers the man breakfast. Although the man is polite and pleasant, both mother and son feel that something is not righ...

Indians of the Tidewater Country: Of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and North Carolina

Describes the history, culture, and daily life of the various Indian tribes living near the Chesapeake Bay and their interactions with the early settlers of Virginia and Maryland.

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