Cookesville, U.S.A.; The Wildest, Wickedest, Wealthiest Big “Small” Town in the West.
Now Available on Multiple Platforms The Immersive AudiobookWESTERN THRILLER—OLD WEST DRAMA—ROMANCE NOVEL—ORGANIZED CRIME--VIGILANTE JUSTICE—AND WILD, WICKED SEX!!
History comes alive in the new immersive audiobook Cookesville U.S.A. : The Wildest, Wickedest, Wealthiest Big "Small" Town In the West from Author and Historian S.C. Burns.
Based on the founding of Bakersfield California, Cookesville U.S.A. is a sweeping epic that tells the story of how the west was really won by intertwining real history with fictional storylines and follows the founder of Cookesville , Frank Cooke and his Native American wife Lily, in the 1850’s. 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. It’s a story of how power, wealth and organized crime drove the foundation of “The Wildest, Wickedest, Wealthiest Big "Small" Town In the West”.
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.
In ‘Cookesville, USA’, S.C. 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
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.
— Peter S. Freedman, Artist & Writer
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About The Author
From a young age, Sarah C. Burns learned intimately about the complications of race relations and family struggles.
As an adult, Sarah determined to address these problems on both a personal and professional level. The study of history gave her answers to the repetitive struggles societies faced, by not learning from the past. Sarah developed a passion for history, as she discovered solutions to both social and political problems. Dedicated to the fight for civil rights, including Women’s and African American History, Ms. Burns evolved into a defender of social justice for all.
Receiving a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from California State University, Bakersfield, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, Ms. Burns first served as an adjunct professor of history at Bakersfield College (1996-2002) before becoming a lecturer in the California State University Bakersfield History Department (2002-2004).
Since 2005, she has been an associate adjunct professor of history at the College of the Canyons and, since 2013, an adjunct professor of history at Antelope Valley College. Simultaneously, she was a social and cultural historian at National University from 2008 to 2016.
Notably, Ms. Burns completed two residencies at the Oxford Round Table on Women in History (2003 and 2012) and the Athens Institute for Educational Research (2004). She has also been a frequent presenter in her field, having written multiple articles in motivational books, with other well-known authors. Contributing her expertise to reading, researching and writing, she wrote and published her first book Matilda of Argyll in 2003, reprinted in 2007, which can be purchased on Amazon.com. Her second historic fiction, Cookesville, U.S.A., was published in June 29, 2021.
Among the highlights of her career, Ms. Burns is notable for being the author of the very first women’s history course in a community college in the State of California. Described by her colleagues as dedicated and deeply intellectual, Burns notes that she loves to share her findings in a storytelling manner.
With the publication of Cookesville, U.S.A., Ms. Burns has turned another corner in her exciting career. Tales from the fictional town of Cookesville will continue with her next book: From PHILPOT to COOKESVILLE; one woman’s heartbreaking path to independence!
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