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Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour 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 venerable Williams 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 Queen is an unforgettable comic memoir of a city boy learning about--and learning to love--life in a cowboy town.

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• Full title: Never Shoot a Stampede Queen
• Subtitle: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo
• Author: Mark Leiren-Young
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781894974523
• ISBN: 9781894974523
• ID: 06419979
• Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd
• Weight: 302 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 143 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2009

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