Richard S. Wheeler

August Beausoleil and his colleague, Charles Pomerantz, have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the theaters on the big vaudeville circuits. Their cast includes a collection of has-beens and second-tier performers: Mary Mabel Markey, once queen of the boards but now a little out of breath; Wayne Windsor, "The Profile," who favors his audiences...

This novel is based on the experience of American explorer John Frm̌ont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, when he becomes trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains and must fight his way out.

Capitalism comes to the American West -- and the Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, wrestle each other and Montana's fledgling government for control of the "richest hill on earth." When newsman John Fellowes Hall arrives in Butte, he sees a mess of smoky mine boilers and makeshift sheds. It's ugly as sin, but it's the best place to get rich. It's also a city full of stories. As an employee of mining titan William Andrews Clark, Hall finds himself involved...

"He thought that this was why he'd become a newsman. Yes. A paper's principle purpose was to report the news and earn a profit, but once in a while, a paper could become a beacon, a lantern, a bonfire for the good."-from the book It's 1877, and all over the West, frontier towns have sprung up, drawing those in search of new beginnings after the Civil War. The young community of Payday is a paradise of rolling meadows and balmy skies, with a quiet...

It is 1831 and Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the British Royal Navy and now a seasoned trapper in the Rocky Mountains, accompanies his Crow wife, Mary Quill Woman-whom he calls "Victoria"-to her village on the Yellowstone River. Victoria-unhappy with her husband's drinking and his unwillingness to join her people's fight against their sworn enemies, the Blackfeeet-succumbs to the entreaties of Jim Beckwourth, the much-honored and wealthy mulatto war...

"Provides a solution, dark in its ramifications to one of the greatest mysteries in American history; the terrible and unexplained death of Meriwether Lewis, age thirty-five, in the wilderness of the Natchez Trace of Tennessee in October 1809"--P. [4] of cover.

It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him. With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric...

Drovers, bringing their herds up from Texas, don't like Opportunity, Kansas, at all. The town is full of crooks and corrupt officials, milking the cattlemen for all they're worth. Angie Drum, the editor of the town's weekly paper, is determined to root out the corruption and give the cattlemen from Texas a fair shake. But when she starts looking into the corruption, she is shocked to her core. Opportunity is not a friendly town any

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Golden Spur Award—winning author Richard S. Wheeler continues his popular series featuring frontier journalist Sam Flint with Flint's Truth, a tale of corruption and cover-up set against he vibrant backdrop of the American West. An editor is popular only if he can keep a secret, and Sam Flint's new home of Oro Blanco has more than its share. Flint chooses this small frontier town, the site of the richest gold strike in the New Mexico Territory,...

Collected here for the first time are all the Western short stories of Richard S. Wheeler, winner of four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for his lifetime achievement in the world of Western literature by the Western Writers of America, with a cast of vividly drawn characters including madams, miners, morticians, detectives, newsmen, and lawmen.