Copper Streak Trail

Peter Johnson has walked the Arizona desert for years, hunting the kind of strike that changes everything. When he finally finds his copper hill, the desert hasn't finished testing him yet. Rhodes, the poet of the Southwest, writes with the specificity of a man who knows this country intimately, the way copper ore gleams in the morning light, the exact weight of hope a prospector carries, the dangerous arithmetic of trust between strangers. Johnson and his horse Midnight ride through a landscape that is both beautiful and merciless, meeting ranch hands, fellow dreamers, and men whose skills with a rifle might matter more than their skills with a claim. The story moves at the pace of a good trail ride, with humor that lands like gunshots and camaraderie built over campfires. This is frontier fiction that refuses to romanticize or cynicize, it simply tells the truth about people who bet everything on the earth holding secrets worth dying for.