The Devil in the Bottle (New)
God's Thunderbolt:
The Vigilantes of Montana
Montana Vigilantes (historical essays)
Vigilante Pictures -- Alder Gulch
Why Revisionist Historians are Wrong
Why is this Site Named for a Mountain Range?
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The Devil in the Bottle (Dec. 5, 2011) Joseph(aka Jack) Slade, who carries human ears in his vest pocket, doesn't have many friends in Virginia City. One of them, though, is Dan Stark, the Vigilante prosecutor who has sworn to keep the people safe. Slade frequently leads his hangers-on in binges, wrecking businesses and attacking brothels. This time, Dan prosecutes him in the People's Court, which the Vigilantes established to keep the peace. Slade leads his men to defy the court, destroying the warrants and threatening the judge at gunpoint. This is #2 in the series. What can I say? Authors don't always write their series books in the same chronological order as the series. |
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Gold Under Ice (2010, the sequel to God's Thunderbolt) Dan Stark foils thieves and evades Civil War partisans to reach New York with his gold only to find he must guard it from his worst enemy -- his autocractic grandfather. Will he pay the debt and survive to return to Montana? "It’s rare that you get a writer like Carol Buchanan; an historian with a novelist’s ear capable of rending the individual voices of character into the orchestral narrative of a sweeping story. Gold Under Ice is an epic journey into Montana’s past with a steady hand at the reins.” |
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God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana (2008), winner of the 2009 Spur Award for Best First Novel, and top 1% of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. Where ruffians rule and murder is tolerated, can desperate measures establish the law? A New York lawyer, Dan Stark, comes to the gold fields of what will become Montana to get enough gold to pay the debts left from his father's suicide. If he tries to leave, however, he will likely not survive to take his gold home. Reluctantly joining a Vigilante group, he faces the horrible prospect of hanging a friend or the husband of he woman he loves. |
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