Rick McGill, who wrote a column about his time as an officer with the Laurel Police Department for Voices of Laurel for five years, has released his first novel, Wait For Me: A Granite Ghost Story . The novel is set in the 1890s silver-mining town of Granite, above present-day Philipsburg, Montana. The Laurel History Boys are proud to present this excerpt. The book is available on Amazon. Prologue In a small tourist town of eight hundred residents in western Montana, Steve a

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