Deuces and Ladies Wild [Mass Market Paperback]

Richard S. Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2, 1991

IN THIS MURDEROUS GAME THERE WOULD BE NO SPORTING LOSERS - ONLY DEAD ONES.

Jubal Peach was the gambling king of Miles City, but that wasn't enough for him. He wanted to own it all, and that included Miles City Kate's thriving saloon.

Sheriff Santiago Toole knew there was going to be trouble. Neither of these two hot-tempered characters would back down. And neither one scared easily. So there was little wonder when the bloodbath began, as a blazing battle of wills let loose a hail of bullets marked to kill . . .

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IN THIS MURDEROUS GAME THERE WOULD BE NO SPORTING LOSERS - ONLY DEAD ONES.

Jubal Peach was the gambling king of Miles City, but that wasn't enough for him. He wanted to own it all, and that included Miles City Kate's thriving saloon.

Sheriff Santiago Toole knew there was going to be trouble. Neither of these two hot-tempered characters would back down. And neither one scared easily. So there was little wonder when the bloodbath began, as a blazing battle of wills let loose a hail of bullets marked to kill . . .

About the Author

Richard S. Wheeler is the author of more than thirty novels, most of them historicals that deal with the American West.  He has won two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America.  He lives in Livingston, Montana, in the heart of the country he writes about.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett (June 2, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 044914710X
• ISBN-13: 978-0449147108
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,573,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard Wheeler began a late-in-life career as a novelist at age fifty, and by his seventy-fifth year had written seventy novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but turned to fiction full time in 1985.

He started by writing traditional westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some as Axel Brand. His Lieutenant Joe Sonntag series occurs in 1940s Milwaukee, and focuses on life in a big, smoky industrial city just after World War Two.

He has won numerous awards, including the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West, and also six Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. He has received more Spur Awards than any other living author.

He grew up in Wisconsin and migrated West, holding newspaper jobs in Phoenix, Oakland, Carson City, and Billings. His wife, Sue Hart, is an English professor at Montana State University in Billings.

He has been focusing more and more on biographical novels. One of these, published in March, 2010, is called Snowbound, and is about the explorer John C. Fremont's tragic fourth expedition. It won a Spur Award.


For a quarter of a century he's largely made his living from writing fiction. That reality astonishes him. In his mid-seventies now, he is still dreaming up new stories.

Note: There are other Richard Wheelers writing books. One is an historian of the Civil War, and another writes histories of the Marine Corps, and another is a social scientist. Richard S. Wheeler is the novelist.