Canyon Secret

A dying man prepares to confess to a serious crime he committed 55 years earlier. While he waits for the police to arrive at the Montana Veterans' Home, he flashes back to 1952 in Butte, Montana, and the Canyon towns near Hungry Horse , Montana. The fierce labor strike of 1952 in Butte and the polio complication to Mik Anzich's granddaughter come back to life. Anzich and his son reluctantly leave the picket lines and their home in the McQueen Addition in Butte to work the final months of the construction of the Hungry Horse Dam where he lives a double life of a father/husband/shift boss and a carousing/gambling/alcoholic con man. The son-in-law's connection with a ruthless criminal endangers his own life, as well as the life of his family members. As he unwittingly races toward the inevitable confrontation with this criminal and the FBI, a cast of unforgettable characters find themselves drawn into the unfolding drama. The construction history of Hungry Horse Dam and the Canyon towns emerge as this confrontation heads towards the mystery's exciting climax.