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1852 was an election year. At that time, Hangtown was a mining camp in California's mother lode. The Native American Party was popular there because it wanted to make the United States a white, Protestant nation. Opposing the Nativists was Zach Johnson, the owner of the local newspaper. Zach's editorials argued women, Negroes, Indians, and immigrants deserved the same legal rights as native-born men. The struggle for dominance between the Nati...

The Hangtown series is about Zach Johnson's search for his soul. Zach struggles with issues of morals, religion, sex, and love. His love, Claire McCarthy, has a series of dreams that thrust her into the underworld and challenges her understanding of God.Book Two's adventure takes place in the 1852 California mining town of Hangtown.

Zach Johnson was an advocate for immigrant rights and leader of the resistance to John Bigler, California's new governor. Bigler and his Nativist allies treated immigrants harshly and sought to crush anyone who opposed them. Zach paid a price for his defiance. In his quiet moments, Zach questioned why a God of love allows suffering?

Description: At one time when an individual wanted a direct, personal experience of God that person turned to his or her dreams. The early third century Christian defender of the faith, Tertullian, observed, "Is it not known to all people that the dream is the most usual way that God reveals himself to man?" Yet by the eleventh century, King William II of England states, "They are not good Christians that regard dreams." Why did this reversal...

Description: At one time when an individual wanted a direct, personal experience of God that person turned to his or her dreams. The early third century Christian defender of the faith, Tertullian, observed, "Is it not known to all people that the dream is the most usual way that God reveals himself to man?" Yet by the eleventh century, King William II of England states, "They are not good Christians that regard dreams." Why did this reversal...