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This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of
science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward
regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved
in regulation, the forms of evidence and expertise mobilized, and
means of intervention chosen to tame drugs in factories, consulting
rooms and courts.
This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of
science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward
regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved
in regulation, the forms of evidence and expertise mobilised, and
means of intervention chosen to tame drugs in factories, consulting
rooms and courts.
Max Fly, Private I, is about a former rodeo clown and roguish
heretic discontent small town newspaper reporter moonlighting as a
private investigator. After spending time following unfaithful
husbands from motel to motel, he stumbles across a homicide case
where a woman is found naked and decapitated in a polish flat, a
typical four room dwelling, common on the south side of Milwaukee
in the 40's and 50's. Max's friend, homicide detective Harry
Marshall, said the victim had a body to kill for and apparently
someone did.
Max Fly is at it again. He is hired by the wealthy family of his
former rodeo rival, Mike Scanlon, to help solve the brutal murder
of Mike and his son, Little Mike, as they rode together on their
ranch. Along the way, Max gets a dose of Tombstone history as well
as love from a Cochise County Deputy Sheriff, Deputy Debbie Red
Eagle, a Yaqui Indian Good Spirit woman. Max and his friend Hap
Schultz stir up trouble as they question suspects that reach to
Hollywood and back and include the mob, local mining interests, as
well as the lovely wife, Rachel Scanlon, who left Max in the Austin
State Hospital with broken ribs as well as a broken heart close to
twenty years ago.
The novel takes place in the Wyoming Territory, which is rich in
history. Famous frontiersmen such as Jim Bridger, John Colter, Kit
Carson, Jebediah Smith and General John Fremont spent time
exploring the land and hunting for beaver pelts. Wyoming was also
home to many plains Indians and it is in this backdrop that this
novel takes place. It is about Swedish immigrants, a boy and his
mother, who find themselves in the Wyoming Territory in the 1870's.
The boy, Esben Hjerstedt, and mother live with the Lakota Sioux
after his mother marries a Sioux Warrior named Grey Wolf. His
mother and Grey Wolf are savagely murdered by six wasichus, Sioux
for white men.The rest of the novel has Esben seeking revenge on
the people responsible for killing his mother and Grey Wolf, his
adoptive father.
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