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Cookesville, U.S.A.; The Wildest, Wickedest, Wealthiest Big “Small” Town in the West.
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WESTERN THRILLER—OLD WEST DRAMA—ROMANCE NOVEL—ORGANIZED CRIME--VIGILANTE JUSTICE—AND WILD, WICKED SEX!!!S.C. Burns, Author and Historian, hits the mark with Cookesville U.S.A.: The Wildest, Wickedest, Wealthiest Big "Small" Town In the West.
Listeners are thrilled with this exciting and erotic Old and New West rendering! In the spirit of famed authors James A. Michener and Louis Lamour, Burns presents an epic saga that takes the listener from 1846 Santa Fé to the 21st century, through authentic stories of Organized Crime, Vigilante Justice, Romance, and Wild, Wicked Sex! Half Western thriller and half modern-day crime novel, Cookesville U.S.A. is an epic romance novel that spans generations.
Based on the history and stories of Bakersfield California, Cookesville is a fictional western town whose story, location and peoples have been ripped from the pages of history. Listeners learn the intense backstory of those who initially settled the wild west town of Cookesville in the 1850’s and follow the founders of Cookesville—Frank Cooke, his Native American wife Lily, and their entourage of Native Americans, Mestizos and Chinese—and their offspring, into the 21st century. The story continues in the 1940s with Frank and Lily’s great-grandson, Sam Cooke, who runs a successful law office. His private investigator, Lyndon “Lynnie” Wethers, is integral and essential to the Cookesville story.
From his backroom dealings, under-the-table pay-offs, and ties to Bugsy Siegel and the Las Vegas mob, Lynnie’s story and erotic sex life are what really heat up the modern Cookesville story. You won't want to miss a single epoch or individual storyline.In graphic detail, Cookesville shows how the West was really won, by weaving together local and national history and headlines. The explicit red-hot relations add to the excitement, erotica, and bloody crime stories, solidly based upon real characters. Remember, all names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty.
Watch the Companion Podcast about the creation of the Cookesville U.S.A. Immersive Audiobook.
Cookesville U.S.A The Audiobook Podcast : Episode One - The Beginning
Author S.C. Burns, Larry Sands and Erick Kaslov deep dive into the first book of the audible "Cookesville U.S.A.". Set in the 1840's Book I lays out the beginnings of the lineage from Frank Cook and his Native American wife. This epic journey tells the sensual story of love and the dangerous hardship they faced building a life together and the founding of the towns namesake.
In this episode, Author S.C. Burns, Larry Sands and Erick Kaslov deep dive into the third book of the audible "Cookesville U.S.A.". Set in the 1990's and beyond, we see the evolution of the town of Cookesville and our characters who have lived through it.
Join author S.C. Burns as she talks about her journey to writing her historical fiction book "Cookesville U.S.A.: The Wildest, Wickedest, Wealthiest Big Small Town In the West" and how Erick and Larry from Something Something Media created the immersive audiobook.
Cookesville U.S.A The Audiobook Podcast : Episode Two - The Wild West - 1840's
Cookesville U.S.A The Audiobook Podcast : Episode Three - The Sexy and Dangerous 1950's
The Sexy and Dangerous 1950's In this episode, Author S.C. Burns, Larry Sands and Erick Kaslov deep dive into the first book of the audible "Cookesville U.S.A.". Set in the1950's we meet and follow private investigator, Lyndon “Lynnie” Wethers and his escapades as he takes us through a sexy and thrilling journey from Cookesville California to the mob ridden town of a young Las Vegas and back again.
Cookesville U.S.A The Audiobook Podcast : Episode Four - The Final Chapter
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Cookesville introduces readers to many historic characters, weaving together fictional story lines with dramatic history. For instance, in the crossroads which was Santa Fé of 1846, Burns highlights the life and saloon of the historic character, Doña Gertrudis Barcelό, or "La Tules," as the people of Santa Fé called her. Here, the flavors of the Old West and Spanish cultures combine to take readers on a whirlwind adventure and romance, the backdrop of which is the Mexican-American War, 1846-48.
Moving on from Santa Fé, newly-wed Frank Cooke experienced the early days of the Gold Rush in California, in the chapter which explains, "How the White Man Took the Land...Again!" Working his claim, Cooke becomes a very wealthy man, who nevertheless experiences the dangers of vigilante law. He and his entourage of Native Americans, Mestizos and Chinese eventually retrace his original route back to the southern San Andreas valley. There, he and his family settle by a river they humbly name the Cooke River, creating the town of Cookesville.
This California central valley city embodies the struggles that ran strong as the state of California came to life in 1850, bypassing the process of organizing as a territory and racing to become a free-soil state. Encompassing lands which paralleled both the previously delineated North and South during the antebellum period, it became an instant combination of numerous races, mixed faces and outlooks. The passions which typify the goals of each ethnicity can be witnessed in its early development. Paradoxically, the spirits of the Old South and the Antebellum North compete on this western soil.
The result of these equal but opposite visions would lead to violent confrontations. Readers learn the backstory of the peoples who originally settled Cookesville, following their offspring and their relations into the 20th and 21st centuries, along with the influence of new in-migrating peoples. Their red-hot relations and stories are compelling, exciting, exotic and sensual; and though they are fictional, they are solidly based upon real characters. You won't want to miss a single epoch or individual story line. Cookesville exemplifies not only how the West was won, but how the spirit of survivalism was essential in uniting cultures-on a local and national level.
Cookesville, U.S.A. is a fictional western town whose story, location and peoples have been ripped from the pages of history.
From Santa Fé, New Mexico to the goldfields of California in 1850, to the settling of Cookesville in California's Central Valley, its colorful characters bring to life the true drama of westward expansion.Cookesville, U.S.A. is a fictional western town whose story, location and peoples have been ripped from the pages of history.
“In ‘Cookesville, USA’, Sarah Burns has done what all great historians do – show us that the past is alive and well and living right here in the present. In fact, the wonderful/terrible truth about Cookesville, California (which is Ms. Burns’s pen name for a real life city located about 100 miles north of Los Angeles) is that not much has changed since its founding back in the nineteenth century. In exquisite and moving detail, Ms. Burns teaches us exactly what put the ‘wild’ into the Wild West – lots of sex, money, compassion, brutality and a powerful heartfelt belief that the American Dream could be made real. ‘Cookesville, USA’ is a beautifully grand story. Although California of 1851 might feel like a John Ford movie while Cookesville of 1961 reads more like Raymond Chandler, altogether it defines an identity that is uniquely American – that we are a land of both scoundrels and heroes and we’re not entirely sure which ones deserve our deepest affections.”