Timber Line

by Gene Fowler

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002DW4DQA
• Release Date: January 1951
• Publisher: Garden City
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Colorful history of freebooting newspapermen

"Timber Line" explores the lives and times of Harry Tammen and Fred Bonfils, the flamboyant (and flim-flamming) publishers of the Denver Post during its yellow heyday. The two are the moral equals of the occasionally unethical William Randolph Hearst, even if the Post didn't nearly match Hearst's circulation. All one must know about these men is that their newsroom was known as the Bucket of Blood, because it relied heavily upon brilliant, often lurid red headlines to snag readers.Fowler was a marvelous storyteller and "Timber Line" ventures far and wide in telling relevant yarns about Tom Horn, Mollie Brown and many others of the Wild West's transitional period. Thus, this book is not just a profile of two swindlers who disguised themselves as legitimate big-city newspapermen, it reflects an important period in the West's evolution.

Gene Fowler and his literary works

Not that I am biased but Gene Fowler just happened to be a distant relative. This book explores the life of Gene Fowler and the newspaper business in 1920's Denver. Through tracing my family history, I have found some exciting and colorful characters to whom I am thrilled to be associated with, Gene Fowler being once such individual. This book is exceptional reading especially if you love Colorado history.