Library hosts final adult program of summer

The Whitefish Community Library presents award-winning author Carol Buchanan for a program on the Vigilantes of Montana.

Buchanan is the author of several highly acclaimed books on the Vigilantes. She says, “Some of the people in my novels once walked the earth; the fictional ones walk only in the landscape of my mind.” These people continue to walk the earth in her 1860s novels: God’s Thunderbolt (1863), The Devil in the Bottle (1864), Gold Under Ice (1864), and The Ghost at Beaverhead Rock (1865).

She writes about the pioneers and the ruffians. When asked why she decided to research the Vigilantes she remembered “standing under a beam where the Vigilantes hanged five outlaws. I heard the ropes creak and felt a chill. I got out of there quick. The experience has stayed with me all these decades.”

Buchanan is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best First Novel, for God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana, prompting author Richard S. Wheeler to call it “…one of the greatest historical novels set in Montana”.

She was also a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist for Gold Under Ice, and the Whitefish Library Association honored Buchanan l with the "Spirit of Dorothy Johnson" award at a gala book festival in 2016.

The program starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25 in the community room at the Whitefish Community Library. Call the library for more information at 406-862-9914.