Flint's Truth - Softcover

Wheeler, Richard S.

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ISBN 10: 0812550218 ISBN 13: 9780812550214

Publisher: Forge Books, 2000

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Driving his wagonload of printing equipment into Oro Blanco, site of the richest gold strike in the New Mexico Territory, journeymen editor Sam Flint decides his newest weekly newspaper will be the Oro Blanco Nugget. But, as he's learned the hard way before, an editor is only popular if he can keep a secret, and Oro Blanco seems to have more than its share. How long will the big mining bosses let his newborn paper exist before they try to run him out of town?

If there's one thing that Flint knows too well, it's that nothing makes people madder than the plain, honest truth.

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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:

The second entry in Wheeler's Western triology finds frontier journalist Sam Flint setting up his print shop in Oro Blanco, New Mexico. Narrator Cullen is challenged by the variety of characters that have ended up in this out-of-the-way spot--Irish and Cornish miners, a proper Bostonian lady, a Texas lawman and numerous Hispanics. Cullen handles the accents with aplomb and differentiates genders without strain. Though not a spellbinding story, the details and attitudes of the period are authentically presented. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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