Rick Steber

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Tales of the Wild West

1 - Oregon Trail (Aug-2012)
2 - Pacific Coast ()
3 - Indians (Aug-2012)
4 - Cowboys (Jun-1988)
5 - Women of the West (Sep-1988)
6 - Children's Stories Volume 6 (May-1989)
7 - Loggers (Sep-1989)
8 - Mountain Men (Jun-1990)
9 - Miners (Sep-1990)
10 - Grandpa's Stories (Apr-1991)
11 - Pioneers (Aug-2012)
12 - Campfire Stories (Aug-2012)
13 - Tall Tales (Apr-1997)
14 - Gunfighters (Aug-2012)
15 - Grandma's Stories (Aug-2012)
16 - Western Heroes (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Wild Horse Rider

    Lew Minor was a bronc-buster who chased wild horses across the vast reaches of Nevada, a buckaroo who rode rough-string and broke cavalry remounts, and a cowboy star who won rodeos throughout the West and Canada. He toured the nation with the famous ...

  • Cowboys

    Tales of the Wild West - 4

    First Printing, April 1988, SIGNED by the author on the title page, an otherwise like-new, unread, unworn, unmarked trade softcover, from Bonanza Publications, Prineville, OR. By Rick Steber. Illustrations by Don Gray. Volume 4 on the Old Oregon Coun...

  • Women of the West

    Tales of the Wild West - 5

    Early-day women of the West are depicted in fading photographs: a gaunt, bonneted figure in a long dress walking beside a wagon, baby cradled in her arms, children scattered behind, a woman, looking older than her years, stirring lye soap over an ope...

  • Children's Stories Volume 6

    Tales of the Wild West - 6

    The first white children to come west were sons and daughters of the pioneers. They trudged barefooted beside the wagons, across the dusty plains, through the heat and the prickly pear cactus and over the mountains of sharp volcarlic rocks. Some neve...

  • Loggers

    Tales of the Wild West - 7

    Rick Steber began writing the Tales of the Wild West stories in 1973 for his syndicated newspaper column. He gathers information from personal interviews and research journals, diaries, logs, letters, newspapers and books. To gain a pioneer's perspec...

  • Mountain Men

    Tales of the Wild West - 8

    Illustrated by Don Gray. 60p. Official product of the Oregon Trail Celebration '93 sticker on cover. The heyday of the mountain men spanned only a few short decades. By the 1840s wagon pioneers were flooding into the West. And the free-roaming mounta...

  • Miners

    Tales of the Wild West - 9

    "The discovery of gold in Califonia launched the nation's first gold rush.It began January 23, 1848. James Marshall, who was building a sawmill for John Sutter on the American River in the Sierra Nevada foothills, turned water from the millpond into ...

  • Grandpa's Stories

    Tales of the Wild West - 10

    1991 Bonanza trade paperback, Rick Steber (Three Little Birds: A True Story of Hope). Great-grandfather has witnessed so much change in his life. When he was a boy the horse and buggy was the mode of transportation. He has lived to see aviation progr...

  • New York to Nome : North Passage by Canoe

    This book is the first telling of what was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the 'longest canoe trip in history'-an eighteen-month, 7,865-mile saga of two young men and a canoe named Muriel. The year was 1936. The place was New York Cit...



  • Tall Tales

    Tales of the Wild West - 13

    A tall tale begins innocently with convincing facts and a few trivial details thrown in. But in the course of the story the limits of believability are stretched to the breaking point. In the end we are left wondering how we could have been so naive,...

  • Buy the Chief a Cadillac

    Offered money by the U.S. government to abandon their million-acre reservation along with the rest of their tribe, three Native American brothers consider disparate goals including an entry into the world of white people, a new Cadillac, and an effor...

  • Buckaroo Heart

    A COWBOY AND THE LOVE OF HIS LIFEHerman Vowell grew up on an Oregon homestead dreaming of being a cowboy. He was barely 21 when he became buckaroo boss of the Pitchfork Ranch, one of the biggest spreads in the West. He felt his life was complete and ...

  • Caught in the Crosshairs

    A cowboy is gunned down and his body is located by a group of Native American trackers. Locals are convinced his death has something to do with the trophy bull elk that inhabit the sprawling ranch where the body is foundWritten by Eastern Oregon auth...

  • Forty Candles on a Cowboy Cake

    After a day spent working cattle, Waddy Wilder sits in a small town bar on Oregon’s dry side contemplating his forty years of buckarooing. He is trying to decide if he should keep rolling along like a tumbleweed, or settle down with that divorced g...

  • Secrets of the Bull

    "BIG FRANK BATTLE LEANED AN ELBOW AGAINST THE HOOD OF HIS battered, flatbed truck and gazed with arrogant pride over his empire: his secluded valley, his sprawling ranch, his livestock. He had not the slightest inkling that before this particular mor...

  • Campfire Stories

    Tales of the Wild West - 12

    The storyteller spins a web of fantasy while the campfire sends a shower of sparks leaping into the night sky to drift among the ancient stars. It is in this manner that the history of mankind has been passed from one generation to the next. In North...

  • Grandma's Stories

    Tales of the Wild West - 15

    Grandma grew up on a farm and, at a relatively young age, she fell in love and married Grandpa. They moved west, found the opportunities to their liking and together they raised a wonderful family.Grandma was the glue that held the family together. S...

  • Gunfighters

    Tales of the Wild West - 14

    The names of the gunfighters are legendary: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Henry Plummer, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok.... These men, and others like them, epitomize the image...

  • Indians

    Tales of the Wild West - 3

    According to popular theory the first inhabitants of north America arrived during the last Ice Age. Between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago people are believed to have crossed from Asia to North America on a natural land bridge, where the Aleutian Island...



  • Oregon Trail

    Tales of the Wild West - 1

    One of the great things about the West is that our history lies so close to the surface. It was our grand parents and parents who were the pioneers.The first wagon train west arrived late in the fall of 1843. It is estimated one-half million emigrant...

  • Pioneers

    Tales of the Wild West - 11

    Mountain men and fur traders were the first to travel the route that would one day become the Oregon Trail. In their wake came missionaries who wrote letters and reports describing the far side of the continent and praising the mild climate, healthfu...

  • Western Heroes

    Tales of the Wild West - 16

  • Children's Stories

    The first white children to come west were sons and daughters of the pioneers. They trudged barefooted beside the wagons, across the dusty plains, through the heat and the prickly pear cactus and over the mountains of sharp volcanic rocks. Some never...

  • Gunflighers

    ""The names of the gunfighters are legendary: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Henry Plummer, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok. These men, and others like them, epitomize the i"...

  • New York to Nome

    This book is the first telling of what was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the 'longest canoe trip in history'-an eighteen-month, 7,865-mile saga of two young men and a canoe named Muriel. The year was 1936. The place was New York Cit...

  • Pacific Coast

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    Tales of the Wild West - 2

    "Sir Francis Drake, the daring English pirate, was the first European to sail the stormy North Pacific. ln 1579, after having raided the Spanish settlements of South America, he sought to escape up the coast through an inland waterway that would retu...

Award-Winning Books by Rick Steber

Buy the Chief a Cadillac
2005 SPUR Award -- Western Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rick Steber has published 26 books.

Rick Steber does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Gunflighers, was published in December 2012.

The first book by Rick Steber, Wild Horse Rider, was published in December 1984.

Yes. Rick Steber has 1 series.
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