Richard S. Wheeler has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 12 narrators. The most-rated is The Business of Dying.
White Hats
Summary
Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson, and other legendary heroic figures of America's Old West get the royal treatment in White Hats, a collection of stories by esteemed Western authors. This anthology is expertly compiled by Robert J. Randisi, who has gathered extraordinary stories of those who wear the white hat from well-known authors like John Jakes, Richard S. Wheeler, James Reasoner, and others. In this collection you will hear the following excellent stories: "The Winning of Poker Alice" by John Jakes, "Sojourn in Kansas" by Lenore Carroll, "The Diamond-Ring Fling" by Lori Van Pelt, "The Cotton Road" by L. J. Washburn, "Buffalo Bill's Last Dream" by Arthur Winfield Knight, "A Commercial Proposition" by Richard S. Wheeler, and "Day of Vengeance" by James Reasoner.
©2002 Robert J. Rindisi (P)2016 Skyboat Media, Inc., and Ten12 Entertainment
Flint's Honor
Summary
Sam Flint is a dedicated frontier journalist whose only weapon is the truth. But when he pulls into Silver City to set up his crusading weekly newspaper, he fears he's made a mistake. The over-populated town is being run into the ground by the corrupt editor of the Silver City Democrat, Digby Westminster. A friend of merchants and flatterer of politicians, the manipulative scoundrel has grown fat ridiculing the miners and working girls while making sure they are ruthlessly taxed into destitution.Flint believes strongly that an honest journalist must challenge the Democrat. But how can he launch his own paper when the whole town is in his rival's pocket?
©1999 Richard S. Wheeler (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Snowbound
Summary
Audie Award Finalist, Multi-Voiced Performance, 2014 Winner of the Owen Wister Lifetime Achievement Award, Richard S. Wheeler garnered his sixth Spur Award for Snowbound, a powerful biographical novel. When enigmatic 19th-century explorer John Frémont finds himself trapped in the Colorado mountains, he must struggle against man, nature, and himself to overcome the harrowing dangers in his path.
©2010 Richard S. Wheeler (P)2013 Recorded Books
Dodging Red Cloud
Summary
Three disparate travellers, thrown together, brave the Bozeman Trail but must do their utmost to avoid the fearsome Oglala warrior Red Cloud - for the trail is his bloody hunting ground.
©1987 Richard S. Wheeler (P)2019 Isis Publishing Ltd
The Business of Dying
Summary
Collected here are 10 Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy. In "Mugs Birdsong's Crime Academy", celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. "The Last Days of Dominic Prince" is the tragic tale of a cattle baron and his final conflict with the forces of political correctness. "Dead Weight" introduces us to a coffin maker who constructs a work of art. And in the title story, two young men in the gold fields of California spend one last night together as one of them confronts his own imminent death. This collection also includes "The Square Reporter", "A Commercial Proposition", "The Great Filibuster of 1975", "The Tinhorn's Lady", "Hearts", and "Looking for Love at a Romance Writers' Convention."
©2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.