Bücher von Stan Moore

Cripple Creek Colorado, 1904, 'The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth!'There is a job for anyone who wants one.  Sort of.   Gold and liquor burble in the streets and saloons.  Untold wealth, plenty of it, comes out of the ground.   But….unrest and struggle lurk.  Mine owners and miners simply do not mix in this eccentric and wild place.   Conflict underlays the camp as extensively as the gold bearing ore it sits on.  The miners’ union and mine owners maneuver and grab and fall like sumo wrestlers.  But in this match, spectators aren’t safely in the gallery.  They are in the ring and innocent people get caught up.   Trains are derailed,  mines are booby trapped, union workers are blacklisted….A savage explosion set off in a public building brings events to a head.   The townspeople must grapple with the crime.   Families, the entire camp, the union, and the State will be changed forever.Abby Bosini, her brother Lon, and miner Ben McNall are faced with daunting and far reaching decisions.This is history.  These events and struggles took place over a century ago.   The story is timely and holds lessons for today. 

For America, the twenties were boom times. New ideas and inventions cascaded almost daily. Anything was possible.There were challenges. Running trains over the highest route in North America, Rollins Pass, was costly and difficult. The effort had bankrupted several railroads. David Moffat dreamed of building a tunnel under the continental divide in 1902. By the twenties, it was badly needed. Charity Hovus, Cam Braun, Dale Smertz, and their cohorts planned and built the tunnel. They encountered unprecedented geological and hydrological problems; new techniques and inventions helped complete the job. Alongside the construction work, some of them assemble and sell creative and unregulated financial products.During this time, Americans' wealth increased. Making money became an obsession for many. There was mining: minerals were taken from the earth to make things. And there was mining: money taken from investors to make a killing.This is the story of how Coloradans came together to successfully finance and build a major project. And some of the era's unexpected outcomes.

Mister Moffats Hill tells the story of railroading over Rollins Pass, the highest road in North America. The time is 1903-1906 and Colorado is the setting. A historical novel, it describes the lives of people and actual occurrences. Courage, greed, passion, and grit are shown by the characters, fictional and historical. The local business climate, is also part of the story. A mining scheme of dubious quality is promoted and exposed along the way. Both the railroad and the mine scheme are fact. Real and fictional characters bring the stories to life.

Rollins Pass....The Ski Train....Moffat Tunnel....names from Colorado''s railroad heyday.This book tells a gripping story. It is about the building of Colorado''s most famous railroad, and how the state became what it is today. Power, greed, tragedy and back room maneuvering are the background to the lives of the workers who built the road.In 1903, Denver banker David Moffat formed the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway Company. Its mission was to lay tracks through Colorado''s mountains, over or through the continental divide and all the way to Salt Lake City. There were many skeptics and some who simply didn''t want the railroad to succeed. Mik Mas, a Denver water lawyer, finds himself a visitor to that year, 1903. Many of the people he meets are doppelgangers for friends - and enemies - he knows in twenty first century Denver. Mik is a dead ringer for a local man who is missing in a jobsite accident. No one but Mik knows that, which makes his blending in, well, an adventure. An accidental and unwilling time traveler, he decides to make the best of it. He embeds himself into daily life in the railroad construction camps. Soon he finds himself embroiled with people he knows but doesn''t know. Some are working for Moffat and helping to build the railroad. Some are helping people who are hostile to the road.Disputes arise over the railroad''s right of way, it''s legal right to use land to scrape grade and lay track. These disputes soon come to a head. Mik is drawn in despite his desire and attempt to return to the twenty first century.