The Mountain Rescue Indictment
An 1868 Case Against the Railroad System

About this book:

High in the Colorado Rockies, a railroad's greed has carved a death trap. When an avalanche buries the *Arapaho* and its passengers beneath forty feet of ice, Territorial Rescue Captain Thomas Vance pulls nineteen souls from the wreckage—while seventeen more, including a mother and child, freeze in the dark. But the mountain isn't the only killer. The Denver & Pacific blasted the slope's natural anchors to save three miles of track, ignored warnings from their own surveyors, and sent the train through anyway to secure federal subsidies. Their lawyer, Arthur Sterling, stands on the snowfield in a fur-collared coat, citing corporate immunity and federal charter, insisting the law protects them from consequence.

Vance disagrees. With two dead patrolmen at his feet and a corporate ledger of shortcuts and silenced dispatches waiting to be unearthed, he launches a one-man prosecution that will climb from a snowbound gulch to the territorial courts of Denver and the corridors of power in Washington. *The Mountain Rescue Indictment* is a visceral frontier thriller that pits iron will against iron tracks, where justice isn't written in statutes but forged in blizzards, testimonies bought and buried, and the terrible arithmetic of lives weighed against land grants.