Masterson

by Richard S. Wheeler

Overview

The frontier lawman Bat Masterson spent the last two decades of his life as a sports editor in New York. He and his wife set out to revisit the west where he became a legend, only to discover that now there are wheat farmers and Prohibition--and an effort to blot out the Wild West of the past.

"In 1919, legendary gunfighter Bat Masterson is a 64-year-old New York City sportswriter who suddenly becomes worried about the inglorious and mostly false reputation he has endured for decades... The journey is a hoot when the old lawman finds out the public wants the legend, not the truth.... This is classic Wheeler, a solid story about real people told with wit, compassion, and a bit of whimsy." --Publishers Weekly

This novel won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2000.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045238861
Publisher:	Richard S. Wheeler
Publication date:	08/22/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	776,380
File size:	532 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

I've published over seventy novels, most of them dealing with the American West. I've been published by Doubleday, M. Evans, Bantam, Ballantine, Forge, Fawcett, Pinnacle, Walker and Company, Sunstone Press, and Berkley.

I've written fur-trade novels, including my Skye's West series, and numerous novels about western mining. I've won six Spur Awards from Western Writers of America, which at this writing is more than any other living author. I've also written several mysteries under a pseudonym, Axel Brand. These are set in the 1940s and feature Lieutenant Joe Sonntag of the Milwaukee Police Department.

I became a novelist late in life, after years as a newsman and book editor.