Jerry Delaney

Bannack is a story of adventure and self-discovery set in the time of the Civil War and vigilante violence. Sixteen-year-old Billy Mayfair, kicked out of his home in Illinois by his father, sets out to find a fortune in gold in a remote mining camp in what would become the Montana Territory. While in St. Louis, he loses his money and virginity, gets in a fight and lands in jail. But, he manages to save enough working in a Union hospital caring for...