It is 1880 and the railroad is coming to town. Former President Ulysses S. Grant arrives along with the train to celebrate the event and look into possible investments. Inez is dealing with the problem of her missing husband while trying to maintain ownership of the saloon. She makes a backroom deal with the local madam, Frisco Flo, hoping to gain some money of her own. When the body of one of Flo?s girls turns up, mud starts flying, accompanied in...

Twelve-year-old Ana dreams of leaving her small Bolivian mining town high in the Andres for another life. On her mountain, the air is thin, the weather cold, and no matter how hard her father works in the mines or her mother searches through discarded rocks for bits of silver to sell there's never enough food or money. To make it off the mountain and get a job in the cities down below, Ana knows she must stay in school. But Ana's dream of a better...

Autumn 1880 in the Rocky Mountains brings frost, snow, and the return of Silver Queen Saloon owner Inez Stannert to Leadville, Colorado.In this silver rush boomtown, those who are hungry for material riches seek their fortunes in precious metals. Others, hungry for spiritual relief, seek to pierce the veil between life and death with the help of fortunetellers, mediums, and occultists. Deep in the twisted byways of Leadville's Stillborn Alley, soothsayer...

"It's 1869 and something is killing people in Virgil, Nevada. Lavinia Cain must unravel the town's mysterious curse to save her family from the strange creatures that roam the night. When 150 years later her diary is found in an abandoned silver mine, two climate refugees unwittingly wake the horrors that still haunt the deserted town"--

Daniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife. But when a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by.

Two burros sold to the slave-driving owners of the silver mine eventually return to save their starving village.

The boom-to-bust tale of a silver mining town in Montana in the 1880s. The protagonists are Cornelius Daley, a mining entrepreneur, and Sylvie Duvalier, a saloon keeper. The novel follows their fortunes to the bitter end as Cashbox becomes a ghost town. By the author of Badlands.

"When Fargo hits the little desert town of Las Vegas, he knows that the nearby silver strikes are filling the town with opportunities of every shape, size, and price. But when he signs on with an old frontier buddy to guard shipments from the mines to the town, he gets pulled into a fight not just against bandits, but against a vendetta-packing family out to end the Trailsman's lucky streak for good."--p. [4] of cover.