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ID: 459852
Title: Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo
Author: Mark Leiren-Young
Narrator: Mark Leiren-Young
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:41:20
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-17
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Travel, Canada, General Comedy
Summary:
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 venerableWilliams 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 Queenis an unforgettable comic memoir of a city boy learning aboutand learning to lovelife 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 thats 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