"During WWII, a solitary prospector crosses paths with Nazis in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover he is no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word 'sisu,' the legendary ex-commando will embody what it means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And this one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold...

Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist.

Contains seventeen short stories about the miners and prospectors of yesteryear in the Southwest.

In Bisbee, Arizona, in 1917, striking miners approach a showdown with the largest posse ever assembled, and strike organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is torn among the strikers, her strike leader ex-husband, and her new lover, a New York anarchist.

A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.

"Kidnapping a pretty woman for the sake of his own ruthless whims, desperado gang leader Jack Kells finds something changing inside of him in the face of Joan's loving spirit and finds his own gentler instincts emerging"--Amazon.

A malordorous smell emanates from a lonely graveyard as a small orb hovers over the grave site of the Slavic miner Goran Divanevic. Through his presence, Goran's tale is later told. Like other immigrants who settled in the small copper-mining town of Jerome at the turn of the century, Goran found steady work in one of the town's prosperous mines. The heart of the tale lies in the murder of Janie Bailey, a lady of the evening who was last seen leaving...

An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical settings yet.
"If America was a melting pot, Butte would be its boiling point," observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher, walking encyclopedia, and inveterate charmer last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee, the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's 2006 The Whistling Season. A...