Running Creek: A Novel of the Palmer Divide

"The land remembers what we do to it. What we build on it. What we leave behind."

Set across 145 years on the windswept Palmer Divide of Colorado, Running Creek chronicles the transformation of a frontier timber camp into the enduring town of Elizabeth. From the screaming circular blades of the 1881 Weber Brothers sawmill and the displacement of the Ute people, through the arrival of the Denver & New Orleans Railroad in 1882, the 1918 influenza pandemic, the devastating flood of 1935, and the modern struggle over the ancient Cretaceous water of the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer, the novel weaves together the lives of the men and women who built a community worth protecting.

Collector's Digital Edition Includes - **Complete Illustrated eBook (`AHS-BOOK-RUNNING-CREEK.epub`)**: Includes all 22 original historical chapter illustrations, maps, and front matter. - **Print-Ready Collector's Edition PDF (`AHS-BOOK-RUNNING-CREEK-print.pdf`)**: Typeset 6×9 hardcover interior layout suitable for archival reading. - **Palmer Divide Historical Companion Dossier (`AHS-BOOK-RUNNING-CREEK-dossier.md`)**: Author's foreword, historical notes on the 1882 Section House and 1890 Huber-Carlson building, and the 23-chapter audiobook track reference.