The Art of Elsewhere: The Phoenix

This, the third novel in the "Elsewhere" series, takes the reader back to Bodie, California during the days of the Gold Rush. Leonard Phelps has destroyed the old streetcar that was the world's link to movement through time, and has trapped himself in the past. Ron Doyle and Gerry Miller build a time machine in a reluctant attemp to rescue Phelps. They don't want him in their world, but the man has shown them that he can create serious problems in the present while still lost in the past.