Carol Buchanan is the author of God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana, which won the 2009 Spur for best first novel from the Western Writers of America. In 2011, her second novel, Gold Under Ice, was a top finalist for the Spur award for best long novel. She writes: "The quiet heroism of ordinary people who overcame great obstacles, made tough choices with courage, and met grave difficulties with faith - that's what my historical novels are about. My foremothers came West in the nineteenth century not because they thirsted for adventure, but because they wanted decent lives for themselv...