Richard S. Wheeler

The Canyon of Bones (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide, leading a wealthy Englishman, Graves Duplessis Mercer and two companions on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer is a peculiar...

Bitterroot: Skye's West

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Barnaby Skye, along with his wives, agrees to take a Quaker missionary, Dr.William Penn Sitgreaves, his wife Abigail who accompanies him reluctantly, and his party, to Owen's Fort in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, where the Quakers intend...

Dark Passage (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

During a trip back to the village of his Crow wife, Victoria, she is abducted by a deadly band of Blackfeet, and Skye must risk his life to rescue her, following a trail that takes him back to Canada, where he is still wanted by the British Navy for...

Downriver: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

As Barnaby Skye, a seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman, and his wife Victoria journey to St. Louis so that Barnaby can apply for a job as a post trader, the couple encounter danger in the form of Creole fur...

North Star: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

There is a season for all things. . .  For Barnaby Skye, legendary guide and man of the borders, it is time to start a new life. For Skye's younger wife, the beautiful Shoshone woman he calls Mary, it is time to find the beloved son she has not seen...

Rendezvous: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying in for a weapon. Fighting for life, starving, hiding from his pursuers--the Hudson's Bay Company and...

Sierra

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Ulysses McQueen leaves his pregnant wife to search for gold at the same time ex-soldier Stephen Jarvis begins his journey to the West coast, and the paths of the two finally cross in California, by which time they are both changed men. Reprint. AB.

Snowbound

By: Richard S. Wheeler

In this powerful biographical novel, Richard Wheeler—winner of the Owen Wister Lifetime Achievement Award and five Spur Awards—tells the amazing tale of the American explorer and hero, John Fremont, and his attempt to find a railway route to...

Sun River (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

They call him Mr. Skye: big, tough, his own man, and the star of a new series of historical westerns. Skye leads a party of missionaries through Indian country and when they are attacked, even faith in God is no defense against a blood-thirsty enemy.

Sundance (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Robbed of his daughter, Hester, and his horses by a war party of Lakota Sioux, Con Brann relies on guide and scout Mister Skye to lead him across the Great Plains in search of his child. Original.

The Deliverance (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

In this newest of Richard Wheeler's Barnaby Skye chronicles, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy, now a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, collects his Crow Indian wife Many Quills Woman (or 'Victoria' as he calls her) and drifts south to...

The Fire Arrow: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

His beloved Crow wife, Victoria, critically wounded in a Blackfeet raid, Barnaby Skye struggles to bring her to her home village for help, an endeavor that is challenged by a renegade band of Yankee traders who are attempting to sell illicit liquor...

The Owl Hunt (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Barnaby Skye's mixed-blood son, Dirk, teaches at the Indian Bureau's school on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Dirk, or North Star, as he is known among his mother's people, dreams of helping the Shoshones to live in the new world of the...

Virgin River: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

This is the sixteenth novel in Richard S. Wheeler's long-running series about Barnaby Skye, the British seaman who carves out an amazing life for himself in the North American Wilderness, along with his wives and his ugly, cantankerous horse,...

Eclipse of Lewis and Clark

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Lewis and Clark: forever paired for their epochal first crossing of the continent in 1804-1806, darlings of the young republic, and the pride of Thomas Jefferson because they made his dream of a nation between two oceans come true.Lewis and...

Going Home: A Barnaby Skye Novel

By: Richard S. Wheeler

It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much...

The First Dance (Skye's West)

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Miles City, Montana, 1885. Barnaby Skye's mixed-blood son, Dirk, has just married a beautiful Metis girl, Therese, but his position as a civilian translator for the U.S. Army threatens to shatter their union. When Dirk is forced to serve in the...

The Richest Hill on Earth

By: Richard S. Wheeler

PIn 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 Far Tribes

By: Richard S. Wheeler