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For 150 years the Stanton's have always been on Wolf Mountain, even before Montana was a state. Now times have changed, they're still there but selling horses isn't so easy anymore and with 400,000 acres of land and 20,000 horses to worry about every penny counts. Sitting in their mountain valley they've overlooked the town of Gold Springs before it was even named for the gold it pulled out of the ground and now the rock they've always counted on is in trouble too.
Gold Springs pop. 3,517 elev. 6,359
Within weeks of the discovery of gold in the sleepy town of Gold Springs during the summer of 1876, it blossomed over night as gold money poured in. Victorian houses fill the streets, with little of the older settlement remaining after a fire took the original downtown in 1889. The current main street was built then with local reddish stone to prevent such a conflagration again.While the downtown is filled with outstanding architecture, there is really nothing to keep you in this rundown mining town. Passing through I kept looking for a restaurant, really for anything to slow my visit, but sadly after half an hour I gave up in defeat. The hospital (500 Main Street) housed in a wonderful sandstone building along with a more modern addition is probably the only one in the state to be specialist in smashing accidents, in all else it is a sad case.
If you really have to stay, there is a sadly neglected museum (25 Main St.) that gives way too much credence to the last twenty years, in other words the last owner. The true history was relegated to a small room in the basement. Eddie Mae’s (407 Main St.) the only real option for food other than a rather tasteless pizza joint, held enough grease in my one regretful meal to take five years off my life. The only faint bright spot is the Inn Between well outside town (Highway 145 10 miles from town North) and it seems to stay busy on the physical assets of its owner not the food. She is noteworthy for the large tattoo peeking over the back of her clothes and for the large amount of breast she shows around the side of her clothes.
Considering the town is home to one of the oldest and deepest gold mines in the country no amount of begging or bribery can get a tour of the facilities. I’ve heard rumor that the old Grand Hotel was once one of the most regal in the state but it too remains closed, along with the Opera House. The list is too long to continue. Gold Springs is dying even if it doesn’t admit it to itself. One day soon it will all look as the surrounding area does, decaying hulks of the gold rush that had filled the area and mobile homes, the palaces of ingenuity, as they try to eek out a living when nothing is there.
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John Stanton, a former Cavalry Major, is searching to find his way in life, after a wound in the war with Mexico ends his military career. Healed but drifting he is offered the position as guide for a wagon train to Oregon. He jumps at the chance even if it is to escort brides across the wilderness. Elizabeth Cavanaugh is different from all the rest. She isn't looking for husband nor is she looking for his help. In fact, she spends more of her time helping him get the women across than he helps her. With midnight visits to help the sick, many start calling her an angel of mercy. With 180 people on the train forced together, her true nature is soon revealed. Everyone on the train knows she hides a secret behind the wild eyes of a wolf, but John alone is able to figure out what that secret is. The wolf is her true self far more than the angel many think. In helping Elizabeth deal with the past she is fighting John finds his own future wrapped up in hers but the past doesn't let go easily.
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Sasha Stanton has just been left a large chunk of Montana when her father died from an illness he never told her he had. Now she's struggling to keep the family horse ranch alive with one employee. When her fiancee is found dead she's suddenly the prime suspect and her temper doesn't help things one bit. But then she has a perfect alibi she was in jail with the sheriff who wants to accuse her at her side. So barring her he's after everyone she cares about. If the police don't seem to be trying too hard to find the real killer she'll just have to do the job. In a case where the entire town is involved as the gold mine dies along with its owner, everywhere she turns it points to no one or her. She finds an ally in the town lawyer, but trusting him is the hard part he used to work for the man she's accused of killing.
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Elaine Ebersol has spent 40 years wondering what if about Seth Preston, a man she loved until he was drafted in 1966. Now widowed and lonely, with her family all living their own lives she looks up the man she once knew. Hoping . . . After being homeless for a time Seth Preston was told he could find work at the ranch. Sasha gave him a job and a home. What she couldn't give him was someone to share his nights with. coming April from
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In Progress When a photo shoot comes to town things start looking up for the town until murder interferes.
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In Progress For years the town of Gold Springs has believed that Sasha Stanton is the reincarnation of her ancestor Elizabeth, but when a history professor comes to town hunting for research to write a bestseller he finds himself against a wall when it all leads to Sasha and she's not talking. Aside from it being her own business she has another reason for stonewalling him. Her uncle's been shot and a friend killed by a hunter that goes missing. But as the hunt to find him goes on he's not all he seems and federal agents even get involved, There are surprises all around, none more than for Sasha as she finds out just how much of a reincarnation she is.
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