{"product_id":"9781894974523","title":"Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable \u003ci\u003eWilliams Lake Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eNever Shoot a Stampede Queen\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable comic memoir of a city boy learning about—and learning to love—life in a cowboy town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage House Publishing Company, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039823085808,"sku":"9781894974523","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781894974523_p0.jpg?v=1763610287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781894974523","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}