The Outlaw from Newville

by Steven T Callan

Overview

It's 1927, and eleven-year-old Willie Radcliff is branded the worst outlaw in the Northern California hamlet of Newville. Molly Radcliff can't handle him, and Preston Radcliff is too involved with his burgeoning agricultural empire to spend time with his rapidly growing son. In 1929, Preston moves the family to Radcliff Mansion, nine miles west of Chico, and thirteen-year-old Willie turns his attention from shooting the neighbors' goats and chickens to poaching wildlife.

Willie inherits the family fortune in 1962, becomes a multimillionaire himself, and arranges hunting ventures-not just in Northern California but all over the world. In the spring of 1973, he pays a quarter million dollars to kill an endangered Siberian tiger in Soviet Russia's Primorsky Krai. Six months later, Northern California Fish and Game Warden Henry Glance is on Radcliff's trail, discovering clues to Radcliff's lifetime of wildlife crimes. The investigation that follows leads Glance to a mansion full of protected animals, a burned-out shack, and two dead bodies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684923120
Publisher:	Coffeetown Press
Publication date:	06/10/2025
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Steven T. Callan is the award-winning author of The Case of the Missing Game Warden, a 2022 "Best First Novel" award finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Callan's first two books, both nonfiction, earned excellent reviews. Badges, Bears, and Eagles was a 2013 "Book of the Year" award finalist (Foreword Reviews). The Game Warden's Son was named "Best Outdoor Book of 2016" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. Callan received the 2014, 2015, and 2016 "Best Outdoor Magazine Column" awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of California.Steve grew up in the Northern California farm town of Orland, spending his high-school years playing baseball, basketball, hunting, and fishing. With an insatiable interest in wildlife, he never missed an opportunity to ride on patrol with his father, a California Fish and Game warden. Steve graduated from CSU, Chico, and attended graduate school at CSU, Sacramento. Hired by the California Department of Fish and Game in 1974, he began his career as a game warden near the Colorado River, promoted to patrol lieutenant in the Riverside/San Bernardino area, and spent the remainder of his thirty-year enforcement career in Shasta County. Steve and his wife, Kathy, live in the Redding area.