Anything Goes

✍ Scribed by Wheeler, Richard S

• Book ID: 109523677
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 499 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780765375810

✦ Synopsis

The enchanting story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns, from reknowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler.

The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Those Western towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in them. All that is about change.

August Beausoleil and his colleague, Charles Pomerantz, have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the theaters on the big vaudeville circuits. Their cast includes a collection of has-beens and second-tier performers: Mary Mabel Markey, once queen of the boards but now a little out of breath; Wayne Windsor, "The Profile," who favors his audiences with just one side of his face while needling them with acerbic dialogue; Harry the Juggler, who went from tossing...