Richard S Wheeler: 14 books

In the early 2000s, Richard S. Wheeler, author of more than 70 titles, proposed a nontraditional and risky series to an editor. While the traditional western depicts courage at arms or in combat, these books would depict moral or ethical courage. Wheeler felt it was time to expand the genre, open...

Wyatt Earp remembers. When Wyatt Earp and his brothers arrived in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1880s, he was a respected young lawman. When he left, a short time later, he was a fugitive. Tombstone had broken and wounded Earp and his family, and changed his life forever. Here is the story of...

Many people have been drawn to the boom town of Cashbox for very different reasons. Con Daley, the Silver Fox, has made and lost fortunes plunging on new mines. Sylvie Duvalier, loves the rough and tumble of a fevered mining camp, and the gifted men who flock to it. There's stern Thaddeus Webb, superintendent...

The world's greatest cutting horse, Bad Apple, has been shot in his paddock. The grieving owner, Rex Pattee, wants to know who did it and why. He hires a livestock detective, Cletus Parr, with an office in the stockyards, to find out. The homespun Parr is soon talking to jet set horse owners, who...

When Buffalo Bill Cody died in 1917, he was the best-known person on earth. But the world wasn't done with him. In this richly wrought novel, Richard Wheeler depicts the struggle to commandeer his remains for commercial purposes.The owner of the Denver Post, Harry Tammen, wanted to bury him outside...

Goldfield, Nevada, where there's a bonanza for those who are wily enough to get it.At the dawn of the twentieth century, incredible gold ore was located in the Nevada desert, and the rush was on. There was Big Sam Jones, a horse trader out to fleece suckers; Maude Arbuckle, a determined...

Candace Huxtable and her chaperone join an 1850s Smithsonian expedition searching for fossils in the Dakota Badlands. Although the daughter of a prominent British scientist, her presence causes much displeasure from the expedition's three male members. But she's paying her own way, and has ambitious...

The frontier lawman Bat Masterson spent the last two decades of his life as a sports editor in New York. He and his wife set out to revisit the west where he became a legend, only to discover that now there are wheat farmers and Prohibition--and an effort to blot out the Wild West of the past. "In...

Two mixed-blood young people, each with a different vision of what life should be. Two lovers, kept apart by their beliefs. Two nations, the Blackfoot and the United States, at sword's point. St. Louis-educated Marie Therese de Paris returns to her people in Montana determined to preserve their...

Sheriff Blue Smith hopes to spend his remaining days at his favorite fishing hole. He's slow and his eyesight is not good, but he presides over a peaceful county. But then he finds the body of a stranger at his fishing hole, and soon discovers that someone is fishing for old Blue. And it proves to...

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...

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...