Richard S Wheeler: 39 books

Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, drifts south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria," as he calls her), in this thirteenth and newest...

Two Skye's West novels by Spur Award-winner and legendary Western writer Richard S. Wheeler in one volume. The Canyon of Bones Mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come...

Drovers, bringing their herds up from Texas, don't like Opportunity, Kansas, at all. The town is full of crooks and corrupt officials, milking the cattlemen for all they're worth. Angie Drum, the editor of the town's weekly paper, is determined to root out the corruption and give the cattlemen from...

Daniel Knott lives quietly as a bookkeeper for Amos Burch, the leading citizen of Paradise, Colorado. Burch is famed for his generosity and civic virtue. But one day, Knott finds himself witnessing something that jeopardizes his employer's reputation. Soon Knott is in grave danger. He can lie in court,...

A quiet prospector, Yancey, finds bonanza gold directly under a hospital run by nuns in a Colorado mining town. Soon, every ruthless operator in town is conniving to oust the nuns from their property and shut down the hospital. There is only Yancey and the sisters to resist the onslaught, but Yancey...

A widow must defend herself and her property from greedy townsfolk in Easy Pickings, a new tale from renowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler Life hasn't always been easy for March and Kermit McPhee, but things are looking up. March gives birth to a healthy son, and their small...

Collected here are ten Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy. In "Mugs Birdsong's Crime Academy," celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness....

Travelling performers struggle to impress rowdy western towns in Anything Goes, and ambitions clash as Montana miners fight for control of The Richest Hill on Earth; two novels from six-time Spur Award winner Richard S. Wheeler. Anything Goes The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes,...

Mountain man Barnaby Skye and his Crow wife are back in Going Home and Downriver, two beloved installments of renowned Western writer Richard S. Wheeler's Spur Award-winning Skye's West series Going Home It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance...

The Deliverance and The Fire Arrow are two Skye's West novels by one of America’s greatest Western storytellers, Richard S. Wheeler, at one price. The Deliverance Barnaby Skye—trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure—and his Crow wife, Victoria, agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne...

Anything Goes: the enchanting story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns, from renowned master of the Western novel, Richard S. Wheeler. The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment....

Truman and Gracie Jackson ranch near Cottonwood, Utah. But they have a secret that gnaws on them. Truman was once a young outlaw. Stricken by conscience, Truman decides to undo the damage he did to others as much as possible. But Cottonwood does not appreciate the effort, not even when Jackson courageously...

Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies. In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfeet raiding party attacks...

In this captivating historical novel, six-time Spur Award winner Richard S. Wheeler turns his storyteller's eye to a clash of towering ambitions in the American West, when the Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, wrestled each other for control of both the "richest hill on earth" and Montana's...