Custer's gold
By: by M. John Lubetkin
Publisher: Bookstand Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Morgan Hill, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781618639271; 9781618639264
Subjects: Fiction; Dakota Indians; History; Dakota (Indiens); Romans, nouvelles; Histoire
Description: John Lubetkin's novel carries the reader through a richly detailed world of railroad surveyors and military escorts establishing the route of the Northern Pacific along the Yellowstone River in the early 1870s. Fierce Sioux oppose their work. This clash might furnish excitement enough, but Custer's Gold has a more sinister underlying plot: recovering buried treasure from a spectacular bank robbery. Since the larger-than-life Custer is on the scene, he naturally gets involved. Suspense about whether the gold will be unearthed, and who will get it, is maintained until the end in this historically accurate and gripping adventure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Maps; title: Prologue; title: Edward Jordan's memoirs: Part I. A tenderfoot engineer (Chapters 1-13); title: Part II. Yellowstone gold (Chapters 14-32); title: Part III. Marraige (Chapters 33-41); title: Part IV. Custer ascendant (Chapters 42-56); title: Part V. Donovan redux (Chapters 57-65); title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A: Fact and fiction; title: Appendix B: Selected bibliography; title: Appendix C: Acknowledgements.