![]() ![]() The story carries them through the financial disasters and depressions of the time, as well as intertwining with Matt's children with his. On the other side of the country, Jason's wealth grows and he becomes one of New York's elite rich and marries his daughter Susan (Suky) into one of the "old" families short of cash. ![]() The early boom towns grow and die, although one town long thought dead begins to grow and change as does the landscape surrounding it - Butte. Matt, his brother Pete and their partners and eventually his sons are involved in the early days of mining the Montana Rockies, first gold then silver and finally digging to the depths of the inner mountains for the remaining treasure - copper. "And so, rather than make apologies for the devastation they had accomplished so far they deprecated it".Īnd you're not going to know what that quote means until the very end of this door-stopper sized book! This one starts in 1861 and tells the parallel tales of Matt Devlin as he begins to carve a new life in Montana, along with that of his brother-in-law Joshua Ching in New York as he winds his way to great fortune through the manipulation and financial downfall of others. ![]()
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