Richard W Wheeler

Richard S. Wheeler

Richard Shaw Wheeler (born 1935), is an American author and former newspaper editor. He is best known for his novels set in the American West, including the...

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

Barnaby Skye, the former Royal Navy Captain turned trapper has been offered a lucrative proposal from the US Government. His intimate relations with many Indian tribes, and his marriages to their women, have landed him a job as scout and translator for the government's Indian Affairs. The proposal h...

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

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 attac...

The Far Tribes (Skye's West)

There are many legends of great mountain men, hunters and trappers who manage to survive on their own in the harsh landscapes and forests of the West. The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry natives to the vicious beasts of the mountains, and the one name that all men of the frontier pr...

The Richest Hill on Earth

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 fledgling ...

Voices of 1776: The Story of the American Revolution in the Words of Those Who Were There

The Canyon of Bones (Skye's West)

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 employer. He has come to the American wilderness see...

Sun River and Bannack (Skye's West)

Two classic novels of Skye's West by one of America's great Western storytellers, Richard S. Wheeler. Sun RiverMister Skye is big, tough, and knows the West as few others do. He's agreed to lead a party of missionaries to the Blackfoot Nation: to get there, they must pass through land controlled by ...

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

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, Jawbone. In Virgin River, the famed mountain man and his ...