The map of America is changing--no less so in the brawling Pacific Northwest, where powerful lumber barons pit their ambition against settlers who've staked their lives on land they've reclaimed from wilderness.
Now, to expand their empir...e even further, the timber kings have declared a schooner race to the finish over raw, turbulent ocean. The stakes are a dazzling cache of gold and currency. The interested parties include a gang of hell-burning cut-throats--and Matt Tierney, primed to meet a lusty challenge from the sea. And to even a deadly score on land.......
Novelist Tim Champlin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, only 80 miles from Jamestown, North Dakota where fellow western novelist Louis L'Amour was born 29 years earlier. Similarities in their histories don't end there. They both have French/Irish ancestry and the fathers of both writers were large-animal veterinarians--a fact that may explain their mutual love of horses, buffaloes and other wild and domestic critters. Drawing on his familiarity with the West,his knowledge of western fiction and his admiration for L'Amour, Champlin is currently writing Louis L'Amour's Wild West for Voyageur Press in Minnesota.
Champlin grew up along the fringes of the old frontier in Nebraska, Missouri and Arizona before moving to Tennessee. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Middle Tennessee State College, he declined an offer to become a Border Patrol Agent with the U.S.Immigration Service in order to finish work on his Master of Arts degree in English at Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University).
Living in the West fostered Champlin's lifelong interest in outdoor sports such as shooting, tennis, sailing and riding. It also gave him a love of the Old West that eventually led him to write historical fiction. After he spent ten years selling magazine articles and short stories, Ballantine Books published his first western novel, Summer of the Sioux, in 1981.
One of the most underappreciated historical novelists, Tim Champlin is a treasure waiting to be discovered. With more than 35 novels to his credit, he is highly regarded for his literary style and well-researched stories that touch on almost every aspect of frontier America, from outlaws and lawmen, the U.S. Cavalry, Indians, prospector, stagecoaches, railroads, steamboats, to the Pony Express and the Civil War. As one of his growing number of fans says, "Champlin is a superb storyteller with a masterful ability to seize his reader's total attention with a vivid narrative, memorable characters and unexpected plot twists."
Now, to expand their empir...e even further, the timber kings have declared a schooner race to the finish over raw, turbulent ocean. The stakes are a dazzling cache of gold and currency. The interested parties include a gang of hell-burning cut-throats--and Matt Tierney, primed to meet a lusty challenge from the sea. And to even a deadly score on land.......
Novelist Tim Champlin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, only 80 miles from Jamestown, North Dakota where fellow western novelist Louis L'Amour was born 29 years earlier. Similarities in their histories don't end there. They both have French/Irish ancestry and the fathers of both writers were large-animal veterinarians--a fact that may explain their mutual love of horses, buffaloes and other wild and domestic critters. Drawing on his familiarity with the West,his knowledge of western fiction and his admiration for L'Amour, Champlin is currently writing Louis L'Amour's Wild West for Voyageur Press in Minnesota.
Champlin grew up along the fringes of the old frontier in Nebraska, Missouri and Arizona before moving to Tennessee. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Middle Tennessee State College, he declined an offer to become a Border Patrol Agent with the U.S.Immigration Service in order to finish work on his Master of Arts degree in English at Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University).
Living in the West fostered Champlin's lifelong interest in outdoor sports such as shooting, tennis, sailing and riding. It also gave him a love of the Old West that eventually led him to write historical fiction. After he spent ten years selling magazine articles and short stories, Ballantine Books published his first western novel, Summer of the Sioux, in 1981.
One of the most underappreciated historical novelists, Tim Champlin is a treasure waiting to be discovered. With more than 35 novels to his credit, he is highly regarded for his literary style and well-researched stories that touch on almost every aspect of frontier America, from outlaws and lawmen, the U.S. Cavalry, Indians, prospector, stagecoaches, railroads, steamboats, to the Pony Express and the Civil War. As one of his growing number of fans says, "Champlin is a superb storyteller with a masterful ability to seize his reader's total attention with a vivid narrative, memorable characters and unexpected plot twists."
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