Gathering At Vantage

Perhaps This Is A Romance Or It Could Be An Accounting Of The Way Life Was In The 19Th And 20Th Centuries. They Came To Vantage Over A Five-Decade Period-Drifters Entrepreneurs Developers The Railroad The Ranchers The Blacks The Irish Beautiful Women Including A Kentucky Belle And A Yound Irish Immigrant. The Mystic Hanging Valley High In The Rocky Mountains Isolated Almost Hidden From Civilization Captured And Held Them Except For A Few Escapees. Their Lives Were At Times Shaped By A Victorian Society. A Bank Robbery Compounded The Problems. On A Lesser Scale That Foreshadowed Major Issues Of The Coming Century The Resident Engaged In Racial And Environmental Incidents. Drugs A Major Problem Even In That Time Took Their Toll. Residents Often Found Refuge In The Cemetery That Held A Venerated Place Above The Town And Provided A Panoramic View Of The High Country Landscape. The Young Journalist Came To Vantage In 1921 Searching For His Deceased Mother'S Identity But Fell In Love With A Beautiful Young Irish Girl And Left The Valley In Frustration Finding Neither His Mother'S Story Nor A Successful Completion Of Courtship Of Kelley. The Girl Is Stubborn In Her Love For The Valley Even As She Faces A Need To Answer The Journalist. Some Violence Explicit Sex.