It’s hard for me to contain my excitement about the release this month of the Animas Forks Western Frontier Adventure series.
I’ve been working on the Animas Forks series for many months now, and we’re getting mighty close to the release in mid-August.
The Animas Forks Westerns features a big cast of characters in an 1873 gold rush boomtown in the high San Juan Mountains.
If you love classic Westerns, I think you’ll really enjoy spending time at The Three Forks of the Animas with Adam Barton, Bell Rogers, Albert Hutchinson, Judge Spivey, Wall Brandt, Cutter Vance and the others who live in and pass through the camp.
I teamed up with author Jessie Noble to write this series. It’s a big project, and this was well inside her wheelhouse.
We planned Animas Forks out as a 12-book series to release one or two books a month from August 2018 to May 2019. We may increase the book count in our release schedule or continue releasing books in the series beyond May. The fact is, we’re both having a lot of fun hanging out in Animas Forks.
If you enjoy reading a series that feels like coming home once or twice a month, the Animas Forks Westerns are definitely for you.
Jessie and I have worked hard to make sure that Animas Forks feels so much like home you’ll be wanting to get your log cabin built before the onset of winter.
In the first book of the series, we’ll introduce you to some of the primary characters in the camp: Judge B. F. Spivey, the miners court judge who runs the camp; Colonel Wallace Brandt, the owner of a saloon and brothel whose only interest is how much gold he can take off the prospectors at his faro tables; Adam Barton, the carpenter who is building the camp; Adam’s partner Jimmy Langdale, who falls for a soiled dove in Brandt’s saloon.
You’ll also get to know Albert Hutchinson, the newspaperman who has no printing press; Cutter Vance, the heavy who works for Colonel Brandt; and the postmaster, Captain Steve Worth.
As the series moves along, the camp will grow.
But the characters are not just the people who occupy Animas Forks. One of the most important characters is the camp itself.
The smell, the sounds, the muck of the thoroughfare, the heavy snows that drive most of the camp’s residents down below for the winter – it’s all a big part of the story.
So whether you’re drawn to the gunfights or the song and dance at the Colonel’s Respite & Variety Theater, the romance, or what passes for romance at 11,000 feet, or you just want to dip your pan in the cool, clear headwaters of the Animas and look for that flash of yellow …
Welcome to the Three Forks of the Animas!
Stake your claim and build your cabin, but build it tight because the only thing harder than the winters are the men and women who call Animas Forks home.