• Never Shoot a Stampede Queen

  • A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo
  • By: Mark Leiren-Young
  • Narrated by: Mark Leiren-Young
  • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
  • 1.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen

By: Mark Leiren-Young
Narrated by: Mark Leiren-Young
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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.

"An absolute charmer in the Stuart McLean/Will Ferguson vein." (John Threlfall, Monday Magazine)

“Williams Lake comes across as the Wild West mixed with Capone-era Chicago with a soupcon of Jim Crow Deep South segregation and an unsavory dash of perversion. And that’s just in the first chapter." (Tom Hawthorn, Globe and Mail)

"Loved it! I salute you, sir. Thanks for a great read." (Zachary Petit, Managing Editor, Writer's Digest)

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How to be Dreadful

Having also lived in the same small town as an outsider, I thought this book would resonate with me and my experiences. Ugh. It did not. I lost count of how many times I whispered “oh, get over yourself” as I listened. Utterly self-absorbed, misrepresentative and boring. The breathy, wet narration didn’t help.

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