Best Selling Books by William O. Steele

"This is one of Mr. Steele''s best books, an engrossing, realistic story of a Tennessee mountain boy who, during the Civil War, comes to realize that war is terrible no matter where one''s sympathies lie."--"Publishers Weekly."

A young Tennessee boy in the early 1800''s goes on a buffalo hunt to prove his manhood.

Two ill-tempered brothers mend their ways after an encounter with an awesome creature in the woods. Grades 4-6.

When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white renegade who joined the Indians causes additional tensions.

A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives and returns to the woods.

After they learn their father is missing, Jess and his sister join a wagon train going to Oregon. Grades 4 and up.

A young boy guides a naturalist from Philadelphia on an expedition through the Tennessee wilderness.

In 1782, nine-year-old Andy, his family, and neighbors make a dangerous journey by flatboat down a thousand miles of the Tennessee River to make a new home.

A brief biography of the southern plantation owner whose knowledge of the swamps helped keep the Revolution alive in the South.

Laird, Matt, and Jane are captured by a band of Indians, but they are finally able to escape and get back to the settlement.

While attempting to charm the Cherokees into loyalty to England, Sir Alexander Cuming is offered by them the crown of the Cherokee kingdom.

True stories of six pioneers who had varied reasons for journeying westward into the American wilderness in the 18th century. Grades 6-9.

A tall tale about Daniel Boone and young Aaron Adamsale who venture into Kentucky, a land thought to be filled with fierce monsters.

Until he learns the reason for the arrangement, a young Cherokee boy has mixed emotions about living for a year with a white man.

After living eleven years among Indians in Florida, a Spaniard guides De Soto''s troops in their fruitless search for gold.

Reveals what is known about four groups of prehistoric Indians from studies of their burial mounds along the Ohio River and its tributaries.

The story of the wealthy Spaniard who came to the New World to seek glory and who, in 1541, became the first European to reach the Mississippi River.

Left to die by his prehistoric family band, a wounded young hunter must find and join a new group if he is to survive.

Biography of a surgeon and Indian trader who assisted in the English colonization of the Carolinas.

Despite his preparations a young Indian warrior''s first battle is not what he expected.

Lafe Birdwell hires himself out, but his new master turns mean and the life he leads is full of fear and grueling hard work. But Lafe faces it all with courage and grows up fast.

Delk Rogers joins the Rangers to protect settlers from the Indians. He finds out quickly that he won''t be accepted until he grows up and accepts duty and responsibility.

A fictitious account of the life of the colonial pioneer, hunter, and woodsman from his youth to his adventures exploring the frontier land called Kentucy.

Flan travels through the wilderness with a Long Hunter and learns to respect his own abilities.

What begins as a bear-hunting trip for Davy Crockett in 1811, turns out to be much more than he bargained for when he is forced to cope with a comet and a violent earthquake.

A tall tale of young Andy Jackson''s travels to bring back a water well to his drought-parched friends. Grades 4-6.