Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo

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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?

Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is a collection of true-life tall tales about a rookie reporter's adventures in Canada's still-very-wild West.

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 21-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 without a pilot that crashed, 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.

Mark Leiren-Young is a well-known screenwriter, playwright, journalist and filmmaker. Nominated for a 2007 Canadian Screenwriting Award for his first feature film, The Green Chain (which he also directed), Leiren-Young has written for other film projects, television, theatre, radio, magazines and newspapers. His comedy troupe, Local Anxiety (www.localanxiety.com), is featured on iTunes and is currently recording a new CD. For more on Mark visit www.leiren-young.ca.


 

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