Fool's Gold

Stephen A. Bly

Crossway Books, 2000 - Fiction - 264 pages

Goldfield, Nevada in 1905 is no place to settle and raise a family. It's in the middle of an arid desert -- and in the middle of a gold rush. O.T. Skinner and his family plan to stay only long enough to restock their supplies before continuing their journey to California. God, however, has a bigger purpose in mind. He's about to use this simple family and their simple faith to make a lasting impact on the entire town in these first two books in Stephen Bly's new series, The Skinners of Goldfield.

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 32

About the author

Stephen Bly was born August 17, 1944, Ivanhoe, California. Bly graduated summa cum laude in Philosophy from California State University, Fresno (1971). He was an American author who wrote over 100 books and many short stories, poems and articles. His books were primarily Western in genre. Bly's book, The Long Trail Home won the 2002 Christy Award in the Western Novel category. Bly had many series that he wrote during his lifetime including: the Rivers of Arizona Series, the Stuart Brannon Western Series, the Lewis and Clark Squad Series and the Horse Dreams Series. On June 9, 2011, Bly died at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Lewiston after a 5-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 66 years old. At the time of his death, he was working on his last fiction book, Stuart Brannon's Final Shot. His wife, Janet, and three adult sons finished the novel for him; it was released in 2012.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fool's Gold; Book 1 of Skinners of Goldfield, Stephen A. Bly
• Author: Stephen A. Bly
• Publisher: Crossway Books, 2000
• ISBN: 1581341555, 9781581341553
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Christian / Western; Fiction / Sagas