Michael Korda joined Simon and Schuster as an assistant editor in 1958, and subsequently became Managing Editor, Executive Editor and Editor in Chief. As in Larry McMurtry’s books, the villains and heroes of the West were so busy telling their stories to writers while they were still alive and kicking that it’s a wonder they ever found time to rob a bank.

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The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures–gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen–are now victims of their own success. After a good deal of thought, Charlie Siringo decided to hang his sign on the new iron bridge spanning Bluff Creek. The Floor of Heaven is a full-gallop epic of fortune-seeking and betrayal that leaves you pondering the high price we pay for both domesticity and freedom.”–Scott Zesch, author of The Captured “The Floor of Heaven will make a great movie–that goes without saying, since it’s by master storyteller Howard Blum.

Using primary source materials from the three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, he tells a fascinating story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

Blum has worked as hard as a sourdough prospector to mine their memoirs, letters and scrapbooks, to trace their interwoven biographies and write a vivid, amazingly plotted narrative that's like spun gold.”–James Alexander Thom, author of the national bestseller Follow the River and From Sea to Shining Sea  "Hold on to your seats! Judging by the daily newspaper, events along the border with Mexico seem pretty much like events along the border in the days of the Earp brothers, except that drug smuggling has replaced cattle rustling. "–Scott Zesch, author of The Captured "The Floor of Heaven will make a great movie—that goes without saying, since it's by master storyteller Howard Blum.

"-Associated Press. Nevertheless, Charlie was certain. You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy.

This is a great, untold story of daring men involved in a dangerous and exciting enterprise: the taming of a lawless land.”–Jim Donovan, author of Custer and the Little Bighorn, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. In a true-life tale that rivets from the first page, we meet Charlie Siringo, a top-hand sharp-shooting cowboy who becomes one of the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s shrewdest; George Carmack, a California-born American Marine who’s adopted by an Indian tribe, raises a family with a Taglish squaw, and makes the discovery that starts off the Yukon Gold Rush; and Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, a sly and inventive conman who rules a vast criminal empire.As we follow this trio’s lives, we’re led inexorably into a perplexing mystery: a fortune in gold bars has somehow been stolen from the fortress-like Treadwell Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Over nearly five decades his authors have included presidents Carter, Reagan and Nixon, Charles De Gaulle, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Mayor Ed Koch, the Duchess of York, and such stars as Cher, Kirk Douglas, Shelley Winters, such media figures as Phil Donahue and Larry King, historians such as David McCullough, Richard Rhodes, Michael Beschloss, Cornelius Ryan, Larry McMurtry, Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins, Mary Higgins Clark, James Leo Herlihy, Susan Howatch, James Lee Burke and Stephen Hunter, and such theater figures as Tennessee Williams, John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.It is the last decade of the 19th century.

Howard Blum writes about their adventures in The Floor Of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush. He had seen the trouble a fellow could ride into when coming off the range. Prices, promotions, styles and availability may vary by store & online.



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