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Lost on the Mountain
Lost on the Mountain
Lost on the Mountain
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In Lost on the Mountain Laya Whisten sat and watched the life fade from her husband Cal as he was dying with scarlet fever. She was left to run a 2000 acre spread, called the Swinging W Ranch. Shed made a solemn promise to herself when Cal died that she would never get married again and she had kept that promise for 8 years. Until she met sheriff Cole Walters, of Butte Montana. She had risen on a cold December morning, made a circle on the window pane to see out, finding a menagerie of snow and ice cycles everywhere. She was headed to her cabin in the mountain and knew she had to get there before nightfall. She spent every winter there gather stray cattle, holding them in the barn until she could bring them back down the mountain during the spring. She saddled Nick, her favorite horse and headed into the timber line. When she was about three miles from home the snow became heavier making it difficult to see where she was going. She had heard a whimper coming from a bush near the trail. She slid off her hoarse to investigate and found it to be a baby wolf. The little wolf refused to let her pick him up until she had fed him several biscuits from her saddle bag. They formed a bond of love, which would last on through the years. He protected her, and found her, when she was lost in a blinding snow storm in the mountains. Her and the wolf pup encountered a grizzly bear on the way back to the cabin, as they were coming from sheltering Nick in the barn when they first arrived. During the night as she dozed in her rocking chair in front of the fireplace, she awoke to a noise outside the cabin. Thinking the grizzly had returned, she grabbed the gun from over the fireplace and silently eased to the window. She saw a silhouette of a man over the saddle of his horse. Laya found a bullet lodged in his right shoulder and knew that she had to get it out. She later finds out he is sheriff Cole Walters of Beatue, Montana and he had been chasing the outlaw who had burned his home three years earlier, with his wife and child trapped inside. Both died in the fire. Cole fell in love with Laya the minute he opened his eyes and saw her sitting by his bed waiting for him to regain consciousness. Even stressed from her administration of taking the bullet from his shoulder, she was the most beautiful person Cole had ever laid eyes on. It took a long time to win Laya over and return his love, but Cole refused to give up. He had to have her.

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PublisheriUniverse
Release dateDec 2, 2011
ISBN9781450273947
Lost on the Mountain
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Elisabeth Williams

I have always loved reading books, and have dreamed of writing my own, from a very young age, only after I retired from working have I had the opportunity to write. I was born July 31, 1944 in Lueders Texas, thirty six miles north of Abilene Texas. I grew up on my grandfather’s farm. Parents were John and Etta May Crowson. I was the fifth of seven children. My dad was a heavy equipment operator while my mother was a homemaker, and worked the farm with our help. I graduated from Lueders/Avoca high school, I have a degree in writing for children, I was a firefighter, and later worked for and retired from Texas Department of Criminal Justice. My children are grown and have children of their own. I have put my heart and soul into writing "Lost on the Mountain", and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.

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