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Volume 1 of Dragon Tooth Gold begins the story of Aaden Callahan and Anna Mercier; two landed immigrants. They met while teaching at Columbia University in New York City. The year is 1841. The young Dr. Callahan woos and wins the heart of the smart and beautiful Anna. Their courtship isn't easy. Anna's abusive and dominating father doesn't approve and works through his connections as an investment banker to have Aaden fired from the University. Their relationship turns deadly when Anna's father challenges Aaden to a duel to settle the matter with deadly force. Aaden embarrasses Anna's father beyond repair in front of thousands of spectators in Faculty Park, across the street from the front gate of the University. Losing the duel and missing an earlobe, the banker's world crumbles around him. He takes his life in a drunken stupor when he finds his accounts frozen and receives divorce papers from his wife's lawyers. Aaden and Anna are spirited away from New York on his younger brother's whiskey schooner Blessed by the Wind. The Blessed is no ordinary schooner. Armed and deadly they fight off pirates in Pamlico Sound and take aboard a blacksmith and his apprentice slave who is his adopted son. They encounter a clairvoyant in Jamaica encounter more troubles having to fight an Argentine frigate on their way to New Orleans. Anna's mother settles in St. Louis and establishes The Black Freedom League. Aaden though is eager to homestead further west. He takes his wife and the servant family from St. Louis to Independence, Missouri, where there is land to homestead and a future to carve out of the wilderness. There, he establishes an empire partnering with blacks he buys and frees to take up homesteads around his holdings. Aaden spends his years building his lumber and brewery business. Anna founds a school in Independence for children of all colors and creeds. The abolitionist culture they create causes many problems the pro-slavery dominated state resulting in conflicts with slavers and even an assassination attempt. Aaden and Anna raise four children. Eli, the first, and twin boys, Jacques and Roland, and then finally a girl, Suzette. As the nation looms toward civil war, Anna yields to pressure from her mother and allows her boys to join the Army Supply Service. The post commander at Fort Leavenworth promises to keep the boys close to home. After a tornado sweeps through the lumber mill and brewery, however, the boys take a contract to join a wagon train all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Suzette defies her grandmother who wants to take her on a clipper ship around the horn to Los Angeles and runs away to join her brothers on the trail west.

Dragon Tooth Gold - Volume 2 - Pioneers finds the second generation young adult Callahans mid summer, 1860.  The nation is on the brink of  Civil War.  Eli, the oldest, and the twins join the Army Supply Service under the pressure of the their mother Anna and their grandmother Denise.  Still serving their counry but safe from the front lines if war should break out, they work for the Quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth on short hauls to supply bases on the Santa Fe Trail.  Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister, Suzette.  After the burial of their mother and the abandonment of the search for their father, the boys take a contract to deliver a heavy load of supplys to the garrison at Santa Fe.  They head to Fort Leavenworth to load up and head west.  Denise is going to take Suzette by ship to meet up with the boys in Los Angeles, however, Suzette has plans of her own.  She runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail.  

Dragon Tooth Gold - Volume 2 - Pioneers finds the second generation young adult Callahans mid summer, 1860. The nation is on the brink of Civil War. Eli, the oldest, and the twins join the Army Supply Service under the pressure of the their mother Anna and their grandmother Denise. Still serving their counry but safe from the front lines if war should break out, they work for the Quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth on short hauls to supply bases on the Santa Fe Trail. Disaster strikes in the form of a tornado that kills their parents and severely injures their younger sister, Suzette. After the burial of their mother and the abandonment of the search for their father, the boys take a contract to deliver a heavy load of supplys to the garrison at Santa Fe. They head to Fort Leavenworth to load up and head west. Denise is going to take Suzette by ship to meet up with the boys in Los Angeles, however, Suzette has plans of her own. She runs away and waits for her brothers on the trail.

Gold is where you find it; the time-honored mantra of the weekend prospector to the seasoned professional; is at best only a half-truth.  Gold is where the planet, through its myriad, inanimate geological processes, choose to leave it.  The Dragon Tooth Gold Mine was no exception to the science underlying the geological process of gold deposition, however, only difficult to find microscopic gold on the surface masked the deposit from the greedy eyes of the early prospectors.But it's not only "The Luck of the Irish" that brings the young Callahans to one of the richest gold mines in the Arizona Territories.  Through the patience and perseverance of an Indian woman that Eli Callahan takes for his wife, the secrets of the red mountain are unveiled layer by layer.  From gold pan to arrastra and sluice; to underground mining, stamp mills, and amalgam tables, the wealth of the Dragon Tooth Mine fuels the Federal money presses of the Civil War.There is more in the mine than gold; the remains of dinosaurs that roamed the earth sixty-five million years ago also await for discovery.  More than fossilized ones, the unique discovery fans the fires of news craven printing presses worldwide.  Destin also finds the Callahans.  Suzette completes her medical degree; Jacques joins the US Army as a scout; Roland becomes the family's financial manager, and Eli stays on the red mountain and mines the gold.More adventure, more intrigue, the Dragon Tooth Gold Series continues moving through and beyond the Civil War years.