Most Popular Books by William O. Steele

release date: Jan 01, 2004

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.

Winter Danger

release date: Aug 01, 2004

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

The Lone Hunt

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

The Perilous Road

release date: Jan 01, 2004

A bitter view of the Civil War from the point of view of one boy whose brother fights for the wrong side.

The Cherokee Crown of Tannassy

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

The Far Frontier

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

The Buffalo Knife

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.

We Were There on the Oregon Trail

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

The year of the bloody seven

Wayah of the Real People

Wayah the Wolf, a Cherokee boy, goes to the Brafferton School for Indians at Williamsburg to live for a year.

Tomahawks and Trouble

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

Talking Bones

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

De Soto, Child of the Sun

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.

The Man with the Silver Eyes

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

The Spooky Thing

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

Francis Marion

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

Westward Adventure

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

Daniel Boone's Echo

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

The Wilderness Tattoo

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

The Magic Amulet

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

John Sevier, Pioneer Boy

release date: Aug 01, 2011

Henry Woodward of Carolina, Surgeon, Trader, Indian Chief

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

We Were There with the Pony Express

The No-name Man of the Mountain

The War Party

by: William O. Steele, Lorinda Bryan Cauley

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

Young America Book Club Presents Trail Through Danger

Over-Mountain Boy

Weekly Reader Books presents The story of Daniel Boone

Wilderness Journey

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

The Golden Root

Tomahawk Border

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.

We Were with the Pony Express

The Story of Leif Ericson

by: William O. Steele, Pranas Lapé

This book tells about the adventures and voyages of Leif Ericson.

Davy Crockett's Earthquake