Flint's Gift (Sam Flint, 1) - Softcover

Wheeler, Richard S.

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9780812550191: Flint's Gift (Sam Flint, 1)

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ISBN 10: 0812550196 ISBN 13: 9780812550191

Publisher: Forge Books, 1999

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It is 1877. All over the American West, frontier towns have sprung up, drawing people in search of new beginnings after the Civil War. Among these towns, Payday is a paradise of rolling meadows and balmy skies, with a quiet population of ranchers and merchants. Into this Eden comes young editor Sam Flint, whose newspaper, The Payday Pioneer, earns him friends with the town and trumpets Payday's glories throughout the West.

Sure enough, The Payday Pioneer lures settlers to the town. But to Sam's dismay, they are settlers of the wrong kind. Soon, Flint finds himself in the middle of an all-out war for control of the town. Perfect Payday is in danger. But Sam Flint is willing to put his life on the line for what he believes in.

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About the Author:

Richard S. Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature.

He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, of Montana State University-Billings. Before turning to fiction he was a newsman and book editor. He has raised horses and been a wrangler at an Arizona dude ranch.

From AudioFile:

In 1877 when Flint is invited to establish a newspaper in an idyllic town in the Southwest, he finds himself in the thick of conflicts over the direction of the town's future growth. Incompatible personal ambitions, criminal elements and still raw memories of the Civil War all thicken the mix. Patrick Cullen has a comfortable yarn-spinner's voice and moves the story along effortlessly. He differentiates characters very little and occasionally mispronounces Spanish terms, but these are not serious impediments to the unfolding of an engaging plot. J.N. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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