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    Audiobook7 hours

    Stop

    Written by Richard S. Wheeler

    Narrated by Rusty Nelson

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    About this audiobook

    From the very beginning, Sam Stop was an enigma to the people living in Pony, Montana. Stop didn't look like a banker, dress like a banker, or act like a banker. So, while there were some initial suspicions about Stop's background, people came to respect and then trust the reclusive founder of Pony's local bank. Soon the bank became the main depository for the assets of the Pony Consolidated Mining Company. Then one day everything begins to change. Two eastern financiers appear in town and it seems as if they plan a long stay. Suddenly, the new bankers decide to call in their loans to mine owner Ben Waldorf prematurely. It soon becomes tragically clear, that they have both the methods and manpower to do so. Stop desperately tries to arrange refinancing for Waldorf, but his attempts are futile. The situation worsens until finally the town is in a state of siege. Then it becomes time for Stop to shed his banker's clothing and show the town his true colors.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateJun 15, 2004
    ISBN9781596070424
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    Richard S. Wheeler

    Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler 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 under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.

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