This is a novel of adventure on the Montana/Alberta frontier in the late 1860s, written more than three quarters of a century ago, from the pen of a man who knew a lived those times. It involves murder, a secret cache of gold, mystery, Blackfeet revenge and desperate battles in the Rockies and on the Great Plains.

On the shore of beautiful Waterton Lake, during the "buffalo days", John and Dick Sargent, a father and son who have established a fur trading outpost in the area, want nothing more than to peacefully trade with the Blackfeet Indians. Then, a grizzled old miner from the Alder Gulch gold rush shows up on their door, laden with his "stake" of gold, but yet who wishes nothing more than to find a new place to live out his remaining years - although always looking for a new strike of gold-rich ore. After a few months, though, he is found murdered in his little cabin! Who killed him? A passing Indian war party or an enemy from Alder Gulch? And where is his hidden treasure of gold from his years of mining? Those are the questions that young Dick Sargent - "Eagle Child" as his Blackfeet friends call him - to which young Dick Sargent will need to find answers.

Originally published in 1934, Gold Dust is the 34th book published by James Willard Schultz. Filled with battles on the high passes of the Backbone-of-the-World (the Rocky Mountains) and on the plains, mystery and adventure, this late novel of the great author of novels on the Blackfeet and the fur trade brings alive a time long lost.

James Willard Schultz (1859 - 1947) knew the Montana frontier well. Arriving at Fort Benton in Blackfeet territory in 1877, he spent decades as a trader, rancher and hunting guide in what is now western Montana. Living among the Blackfeet, he came to consider one of them. Later in life, after the death of his dear Pikuni wife Natahki, he began to write, eventually publishing 37 books, many of them novels about his friends, the Blackfeet Indians, and other adventures of the Montana territory. This new digital edition of Gold Dust features a special introduction and footnotes by Bryan R. Johnson to provide detailed background on Blackfeet culture and history in this exciting tale of adventure set in the old West.

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