C C Phillips

The Broken Buckle C C Phillips

In the early fifties, any farm lad with a healthy imagination and a smattering of ambition could keep himself busy and happily entertained. Young Jesse Sterling did not lack for either of the essential ingredients but he also had an uncanny ability to fall into incredible adventures. The discovery of a giant woolly mammoth in his father's rye field turned out to be the prelude to a series of events that kept Jesse and his adopted brother, Brew, wondering what might happen next. The unearthing of an ancient civilization, in close proximity to the mammoth dig, should have been enough excitement to last a lifetime; however, when the research team found the remains of a murdered North West Mounted Police officer among the mummified corpses of the 'old people', Jesse and Brew were keen to sort out the riddle. Although the modern-day Mounties were baffled, the boys doggedly stuck to a trail gone sixty years cold. They had one possible clue: a broken buckle.