Mud Puddlers - Bailey, Shaun
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William Black may be the first racketeer to ever hit Las Vegas. He isn't content "puddling mud," or pouring Hoover Dam's concrete. He's more concerned with running "the Black Bank," an underground lottery complete with runners, middle men-the works. The only thing standing in his way is Simeon Eliason, the boomtown's dictatorial mayor. But does Black fall in line? No, instead he doubles down by attempting to unionize his fellow migrants; men he believes will place bigger bets by virtue of higher wages. He even plots to steal a payroll delivery, thus ensuring his members can survive a prolonged…mehr

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William Black may be the first racketeer to ever hit Las Vegas. He isn't content "puddling mud," or pouring Hoover Dam's concrete. He's more concerned with running "the Black Bank," an underground lottery complete with runners, middle men-the works. The only thing standing in his way is Simeon Eliason, the boomtown's dictatorial mayor. But does Black fall in line? No, instead he doubles down by attempting to unionize his fellow migrants; men he believes will place bigger bets by virtue of higher wages. He even plots to steal a payroll delivery, thus ensuring his members can survive a prolonged strike. If he succeeds, he may never again have to perform hard labor. But if he fails, Eliason will have the proof he needs to send Black to the very back of the bread line, or worse. He could cement Black's legacy as a warning to every gangster intent on creating Sin City."
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Autorenporträt
Shaun Bailey was born in Flint, Michigan, where boomtowns had a big influence on him. Finding little work, he left these to pursue writing in the style of his role model, John Steinbeck. This migration, together with his career writing about estuaries, led him to pen the novel "Mud Puddlers"; a book about hard-working migrants altering the course of arguably the grandest river of them all: the Colorado.

Bailey lives in Michigan with his wife and two children. He has yet to lay eyes on the Hoover Dam, though he does marvel at its grandeur. What he doesn't marvel at are small, obsolete dams. That's why he is donating five percent of this book's profits to American Rivers. This way, every reader will help waterways flow freely to the sea once again.