Collected Short Stories

by Richard S. Wheeler

Overview

Here are eight short stories by award-winning author Richard S. Wheeler. Some are contemporary, some historical, but all are connected to the American West. Seven were published in anthologies, but this collection has a comic new story, Looking for Love at a Romance Writers Convention. Another, The Last Days of Dominic Prince, was a finalist for the Spur Award, and deals with a modern rancher who roped a mountain lion and discovered that not everyone approved. The Great Filibuster of 1975 is about some miscreants on the border who attempt to saw off a piece of Mexico and add it to the United States. There are historical stories too, including one about a legendary gambling lady who refused to let a plague-bearing river boat dock in Fort Benton, Montana. Another, The Business of Dying, is a tender story is about a dying young gold miner in California who sums up his short life.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013048409
Publisher:	Richard S. Wheeler
Publication date:	08/24/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	169 KB

About the Author

Richard S. Wheeler has been writing fiction for over three decades, and has won six Spur Awards from Western writers of America, more than any other living author. He writes historical novels, biographical novels, westerns, mysteries, and short stories.