First Christmas At Muddy Creek

Charming, poignant, and wonderfully heartfelt, First Christmas at Muddy Creek by Richard A. Bartlett is a touching tribute to the human spirit and the power of redemption. Mounted on his big black mule, Gabriel, Jesuit Father Demetrius de Mara travels to a boomtown in Montana that is wrought with sin and human degradation, with the hope of hosting a midnight mass on Christmas Eve. Sound easy? The problem is he has just a few hours to find a makeshift church, perform a burial ceremony for a recently departed shoot-out victim, and scare up a few parishioners. It will take dogged determination, a little cooperation, and a lot of luck for the small community of Muddy Creek to convert a saloon into a chapel, but as the clock ticks a bevy of rather odd and unlikely brethren will join Father Demetrius’ fray to help bring the Wild West a Christmas to remember.