Searching for Silverheels (28 page)

Today, the town of Como, Colorado, has only a handful of residents, though the historic hotel, railroad depot, and roundhouse remain. Little remains of the town site of Buckskin Joe, but you can still walk through its cemetery. Who knows, you might even see a woman there, in a black veil and silver dancing shoes.

You will certainly see her namesake, Mount Silverheels
(elev. 13,829 feet), one of the most beautiful mountains ringing South Park. It is Colorado's 99th tallest mountain. Of the hundred tallest mountains in the state, it is the only one named for a woman.

JEANNIE MOBLEY
is an archaeologist and professor who lives in Colorado. Her first novel,
Katerina's Wish
, reveived three starred reviews, was a Colorado Book Award winner, and was a New York Public Library Top 100 selection. Visit her at
JeannieMobley.com
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Katerina's Wish

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mobley, Jeannie.

Searching for Silverheels / Jeannie Mobley.—First edition.

p. cm.

Summary: In Colorado during World War I, a young, romantically minded girl and an old, bitter woman suffragist debate a local legend and examine the role of women in a time of war and prejudice.

ISBN 978-1-4814-0029-9 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4814-0031-2 (eBook)

[1. Sex role—Fiction. 2. Colorado—History—1876–1950—Fiction. 3. World War, 1914–1918—United States—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M71275Se 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013033485