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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen - A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo - cover
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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen - A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo

Mark Leiren-Young

Narrateur Mark Leiren-Young

Maison d'édition: Heritage House Publishing

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Synopsis

The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me that some people I was writing about might try to test the strength of my skull with a steel pipe. What more could any young reporter hope for from his first real job? 
The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune, he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery. And that was before things got weird. For a 22-year-old from Vancouver, a stint in the legendary Cariboo town was a trip to another world and another era. From the explosive opening, where Mark finds himself in a courtroom just a few feet away from a defendant with a bomb strapped to his chest, to the case of a plane that crashed without its pilot on board, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is an unforgettable comic memoir of a city boy learning about—and learning to love—life in a cowboy town. 
"An absolute charmer in the Stuart McLean/Will Ferguson vein." —John Threlfall, Monday Magazine 
“Williams Lake comes across as the Wild West mixed with Capone-era Chicago with a soupcon of Jim Crow Deep South segregation and an unsavory dash of perversion. And that’s just in the first chapter. —Tom Hawthorn, Globe and Mail 
"Loved it! I salute you, sir. Thanks for a great read." —Zachary Petit, Managing Editor, Writer's Digest
Durée: environ 7 heures (06:41:21)
Date de publication: 15/01/2017; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —