Muckrakers 1917

Finding the truth, no matter the cost.

In 1917, Henry Carter and Etta Pearce are reporters for the Bisbee, Arizona newspaper. Following the backlash after Carter’s scathing report on the deportation of striking IWW mine workers, their editor Cal Langley send the budding muckrakers to New Mexico to investigate the murder of a prominent Silver City rancher. There they discover that the killer may have been hired to eliminate the rancher, a fact that the trial being held in El Paso has ignored. Henry and Etta’s muckraking continues in Phoenix as the pair exposes a political assassination that the perpetrator tries to hide using the Spanish Flu epidemic as cover. But this time their reporting might cost them their lives.

Bruce Wilson is an adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Western New Mexico University. He earned a BA in Business at Cal-State Fullerton in 1968 and his Masters Degree in English and History in 2010 at WNMU. A life-long student of American History, once he retired from corporate America, he melded his interest in history with his skills as a wordsmith and created three historical fiction novels. The first two won several literary awards upon their publication, and the third will soon be released.