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When editor Sam Flint arrives in Silver City, intending to set up a weekly newspaper, he finds the crowded town is dominated by a cynical and ruthless rival newspaper editor, who's in cahoots with a mining magnate who likes to control everyone and everything in sight.
But Flint is a tough customer, and manages to put out some issues of his newspaper that affront those in power. Next he knows, his press and equipment are wrecked, and he's in an all-out struggle to expose the crooked cabal that runs Silver City. This is a story of the rough-and-tumble newspapers of the frontier, and the editors who kept a revolver handy in their desk drawers.
Flint can't find suitable quarters and finally sets up shop in the restricted area, and his rivals promptly call his paper the Bawdyhouse Bugle. But Flint gathers around him some remarkable talent, and soon they're giving the town autocrats a good fight. There's humor here, as well as drama.
But Flint is a tough customer, and manages to put out some issues of his newspaper that affront those in power. Next he knows, his press and equipment are wrecked, and he's in an all-out struggle to expose the crooked cabal that runs Silver City. This is a story of the rough-and-tumble newspapers of the frontier, and the editors who kept a revolver handy in their desk drawers.
Flint can't find suitable quarters and finally sets up shop in the restricted area, and his rivals promptly call his paper the Bawdyhouse Bugle. But Flint gathers around him some remarkable talent, and soon they're giving the town autocrats a good fight. There's humor here, as well as drama.
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About the Author:
Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of over fifty western and historical novels. He has received five Spur Awards from Western Writers of America, as well as the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to the literature of the American West.
From Publishers Weekly:
After the first two insipid volumes in the Sam Flint western trilogy (Flint's Gift and Flint's Truth), Spur Award-winning Wheeler finally strikes the right balance of suspense, humor, drama and credibility in this final installment. Flint is an itinerant newspaperman, an idealist who bums around the rough mining towns of the Old West setting up crusading weekly newspapers until he gets run out of town, which happens with clockwork regularity. In 1878 he shows up in Silver City, Colo., with his printing press, some paper and ink, and a na?ve plan to oppose the established and corrupt newspaper of Digby Westminster, a ruthless and greedy editor who preys on the poor and helpless. Silver City is a boomtown, however, and the only rental space available to Flint is in the unsavory back room of a bordello; his landlady is a predictably voluptuous and kindhearted trollop inappositely named Chastity. From the doxies and tinhorns, Flint quickly learns how Westminster runs a powerful triangle to control the town. In his journalistic efforts to combat this corruption, Flint's new paper, the Silver City Sentinel, earns few friends, no money and plenty of rough handling by Westminster's scathing editorials and his street thugs. Flint's enemies are not limited to the newspaper war. Rich and arrogant mine tycoon Achilles Balthazar, his penny-pinching wife, Consuela, and brutal son, Hamlin, also conspire to be rid of Flint and his bothersome publication. Aided by Chastity and a wacky and brilliant typesetter named Napoleon, Flint fights back with some nifty journalistic tactics that turn the town upside-down and drive his enemies crazy. This conclusion to the trilogy has pizzazz. Shrewdly plotted and refreshingly entertaining, it is by far the best of the three. (July)
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- PublisherIuniverse Inc
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 059534397X
- ISBN 13 9780595343973
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages322
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