The Phantom Buck

About the Book

The Old Timer lives in an old prospectors cabin that he rebuilt. The cabin is close to a beautiful waterfall. He came to this area because of roomers of gold being panned below the falls. He discovers a unique happening of nature, a white mule deer fawn.

His life becomes more meaningful as he follows the life of this beautiful deer, and continues to look for the mother lode and where the gold is coming from.

The people of Lode, think he is a strange person and want nothing to do with him, and he wants nothing to do with them.

After his death, the people find out what kind of a person he really was.

About the Author

Jerald Oldroyd, currently a retired elementary school teacher of 35 years lives in a little town surrounded by majestic mountains in Southern Utah, with a population of about 450 people. Being a school teacher for all of those years, he knows what kind of books children would enjoy reading. He is a wildlife photographer, who for years has studied the habits of animals. His love for children and wildlife motivated him to write this book. His wife MayDene and their four children also live in Utah.