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Richard S. Wheeler
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born
March 12, 1935
in Milwaukee, The United States
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An old friend and colleague, Jeff Gibson, retired editor of The Montana Standard, has written a coming of age novel. But it is more. It is also a coming of old age novel, and the two stories are intertwined.
It's about three 1950s youths in Riverside, Montana (actually, Livingston) who head into the high country each summer for adventure. But rivalry for a sweet girl tears them apart. Two of th... read more »
It's about three 1950s youths in Riverside, Montana (actually, Livingston) who head into the high country each summer for adventure. But rivalry for a sweet girl tears them apart. Two of th... read more »
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Snowbound
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2010
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Aftershocks
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1999
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Sierra: A Novel Of The California Gold Rush
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2005
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Eclipse: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
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Sun River
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1989
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Rendezvous
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1997
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Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age
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1997
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The Canyon of Bones
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2007
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The Fire Arrow: A Barnaby Skye Novel
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2006
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The Fields Of Eden
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2001
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| In many ways this is a fine remembrance. But it focuses so heavily on the milieu in which Sinatra grew up, and the impact of all these prejudices and traditions, that one might assume that Frank Sinatra himself played only a minimal role in what he e...more | |
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| I heard or read most of this book in manuscript, and was greatly impressed. William Hjortsberg has done a masterful job of depicting the life of Richard Brautigan, the iconic counterculture poet. | |
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| This is a valuable and corrective biography that restores the reputation of Cecil B. DeMille, one of Hollywood's great pioneers. In Many ways, DeMille virtually created film making, and his influence is with us even now. But he began to make epic fil...more | |
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| This is an extraordinary memoir, written in graceful, subdued language by an Irish newswoman who became Hemingway's personal secretary and confidante during his last years, when he was struggling. She was on hand for the somber chapters of Ernest Hem...more | |
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| This is a tender pictorial memoir of Gary Cooper, written by his daughter Maria Cooper Janis. She does a splendid job of it, giving us rich insights and anecdote about her father and mother, their lives, friends, vacations, stardom, and ideals. Coope...more | |
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| This tender and powerful novel is about a man who finds a life in the maturing west, and the woman who joins him high in the wilds of the high country of Montana. Fenton Pardee, a roustabout in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, abandons the show at the time...more | |
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| I thoroughly enjoyed the anecdotal story of American publishing in its golden age, the bright and noble and naughty authors, and the flashes of genius that dazzled readers and reviewers. The author was there, and he tells us about it with measured pr...more | |
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