Jake Chandler is a boy of 17 when he and his Ma and Pa join a small wagon train headed for the Arizona Territory. Terrible, heart-breaking circumstances force Jake to spend a long winter living alone in a cave in the Chiricahua Mountains, hiding from the Apaches. In the spring, he finds Fort Bowie and as he is leaving to return to his mountain valley, a young prostitute named Becca comes running out to him, screaming for help from men who are beating her. In the days and weeks that follow, Jake tries to explain his faith in Christ to Becca, but stumbles badly in the effort. Becca has never heard of Christ, and if she is to believe, she must struggle through an overwhelming sense of inferiority, guilt and shame, then find Jake as she runs for her life from Big Kate, who wants her dead

Cliff has been an attorney in Arizona for 37 years. His formative years were spent in New Mexico where he developed a love for the southwest and its history. He was a commissioned officer in the U. S. Naval Reserve where he served briefly during the Vietnam War. His wife, Jacqueline, is an Arizona native with family members who came to Arizona when it was still a Territory. Cliff has many and varied interests. He has served as an elected member to a School Board and many community organizations. He has held a private single and multi-engine pilot's license and has flown private airplanes for many years. He is also an artist, working in pencil, charcoal, oils and acrylics. He and his wife have two married children, a daughter, Lori, married to Brent, with three children, and a son, Brian, married to Kristin, with two children. Both his son and son-in-law are ordained ministers. In 1880's Arizona, Jake Chandler is nineteen and married to Becca, a beautiful former prostitute at the Bucket, a saloon south of Fort Bowie. They are living happily in Table Top Valley, located in the Chiricahua Mountain in the Arizona Territory. But Big Kate Dawson, the former owner of the Bucket, refuses to concede that Becca is now a Christian and married to Jake. She is determined to force Becca back into prostitution and destroy Jake. Jake and Becca's faith in Christ and in each other are tested to the limit as they are subjected to the most devious and calculating efforts to destroy them both. They must struggle against overwhelming odds to hold on to their faith and restore their lives together in Table Top Valley.

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The spectacular Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona are one of nature?s last strongholds. Separated from other mountains by wide desert valleys, these ?sky islands? have developed an unusual ecology, history, and charm. Weldon Heald, former director of the Sierra Club, traveled through the Chiricahuas on foot and horseback every season of the year, and here provides a fascinating look at its history, its wildlife, and its breathtaking natural splendor.

An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson’s death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations—and undertake it in illusory ways—can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson’s wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died. Carney unravels how the cultlike practices of McNally and Roach and the questionable circumstances surrounding Thorson’s death illuminate a uniquely American tendency to mix and match eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces in a quest to reach an enlightened, perfected state, no matter the cost. Aided by Thorson’s private papers, along with cutting-edge neurological research that reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain and stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes, A Death on Diamond Mountain is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.