QUICKSILVER - National Novel Writing Month - Book Idea # 6

      

QUICKSILVER

National Novel Writing Month 

Book Idea # 6

      Nathan Hilton has taken a job riding shotgun on a mining wagon from the Sulphur Bank Mines over Mt Saint Helena to the rail head in Calistoga. The wagon carries mercury from the mines and returns with cash for the miners. In the 1880s, mining towns like Quicksilver grew up faster than the law needed to protect the miners. Only men like Nathan stood in the way of highwaymen and outlaws, like Black Bart.