Charlie's Gold and Other Frontier Tales

The frontier tales of Kent Kamron take you back to the old west, circa 1860-1900, a time when ranchers, soldiers, and settlers made their place in history. The initial westward movement beyond the Mississippi crept into the rolling hills of Kansas and Nebraska, where the cattle towns gained notoriety. The next lands of opportunitybecame the open plains of the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming territories, a further invasion of the west, all which earned the termManifest Destiny.Along the way, cowboys pushed herds into unknown lands, railroadslaid the foundations for the cities to come, ranchers gathered up land,sodbusters proved upon their claims, and the army built their forts. During this period of time from the end of the Civil War through thesad tale of Wounded Knee, the encroachment upon the Indian and theIndian lands was a never-ending battle.These stories are about the people who made up the West, some good,some bad. The heroes are men and women, and the Indians in these tales reveal bits of the culture and spirituality that the white man of the time seldom understood.If you add some robbers and gunfighters and a lone prospector likeCharlie, that pretty well sums it up.