Masterson

By Richard S. Wheeler

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard S. Wheeler
• Release date: Aug 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301579341

Richard S. Wheeler

Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.

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