A Thread of Gold
Gold and murder, this book spans time as three separate sets of brothers seek a fabulously rich mine in the Tarryall Mountains of Colorado. Readers will enjoy the weave of history and intrigue.
- Published
- 2005
- ISBN
- 978-1-932738-12-4
- Pages
- 480
- Place
- Colorado
- Publisher
- Western Reflections Publishing Co.
- Listed at
- $32.32
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About this book
A Thread of Gold is a novel about a mine that three sets of brothers cannot stop chasing. Its setting is the Tarryall Mountains of Colorado, and the search runs across several generations, so the hunt for a fabulously rich strike is also a hunt through the past. The description promises gold and murder in equal measure.
R. Reed Johnson writes the story as historical fiction. Our catalogue lists the book under gold mines and mining, gold miners, brothers and Colorado, all with the fiction tag. The record gives 2005 as the year of this edition, from Western Reflections Publishing Co. The pages differ from one source to another, so we leave the count out here.
Who it is for
This novel is for readers who like a treasure hunt told as a family story. If you enjoy Colorado settings, lost mines and plots that move between periods, the premise fits. It is fiction, so it will not serve as a guide to the real Tarryall district. It is a long book by the catalogue's own count, so it suits someone ready to settle in with a single story over a few evenings.
Ways to use this book
Checking the real mining history behind a lost mine story
Fiction about a hidden strike is more fun when you know how placer gold was really found. Start with the mining page above, then search the digital archive for Tarryall and Fairplay photographs to see what a camp actually looked like.
Planning a South Park day trip
Fairplay and the Tarryall country make a workable day out from the Front Range. Read the museum's own site before you set out, confirm its season by phone or email, and bring the novel to read in the car on the way.
Go deeper
The novel's hunt is set in the Tarryall Mountains, part of Park County's South Park country. These Colorado heritage groups work with the real history of that district and its gold camps.
South Park National Heritage Area, Mining
This page says the discovery of gold along Tarryall Creek brought a flood of prospectors to South Park, and it explains placer mining, the earliest method used there.
Park County Local History Digital Archive
A free online collection of photographs and oral histories about Park County, with maps and exhibits you can browse by place.
South Park City Museum
The Fairplay museum describes itself as a mining town as it looked between 1860 and 1900, built from forty four authentic buildings.
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