Goldfield » (Authors Guild Backinprint.com Edition)

Richard S.Wheeler has written over fifty novels and several short stories. He has won four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of western literature.

He lives in the literary and film community of Livingston, Montana, and is married to Professor Sue Hart, of Montana State University-Billings. Before turning to fiction he was a newsman and book editor. He has raised horses and been a wrangler at an Arizona dude ranch.

The discovery of rich lodes of gold in southwestern Nevada drew mobs of dreamers and entrepreneurs, out to get rich quick.