Skye's West Series

Book 1

Rendezvous: A Barnaby Skye Novel

The Canyon of Bones and North Star

The Canyon of Bones - Mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come to the American wilderness seeking thrilling, preferably salacious, material for British tabloids. He takes an ancient bone that's sacred among certain tribes - and the act may cost the party their lives. North Star - Barnaby Skye faces radical change as the wilderness vanishes, buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation land. His family's struggle to adapt takes them from Montana to Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains.

Rendezvous and Dark Passage

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 3 February 2015

NO. 19 OF

The First Dance

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 5 July 2011

NO. 13 OF

The Deliverance

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 19 March 2003

In this newest of Richard Wheeler's Barnaby Skye chronicles, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy, now a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, collects his Crow Indian wife Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria" as he calls her) and drifts south to Mexican territory

At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, Skye agrees to help Standing
Alone, a mysterious Cheyenne woman, locate her two children who were
kidnapped by Ute Indians several years before and sold into bondage in
Mexico.

This impossible, dangerous, and foolhardy mission takes the three to Santa Fe and Taos and into a strange association with an eccentric Texas adventurer, Colonel Childress, who agrees to help them for reasons no one can guess.

" Deliverance" is the 13th in a series of early American West frontier
novels featuring Barnaby Skye, the most beloved and enduring character in
modern Western fiction.

Bitterroot and Sundance

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 31 March 2020

NO. 17 OF

North Star

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 3 March 2009

There is a season for all things...For Barnaby Skye, legendary guide and man of the borders, it is time to start a new life. For Skye's young wife, the beautiful Shoshone woman he calls Mary, it is a time to find the beloved son she has not seen in seven years. For Skye's half-blood son, North Star, it is time to discover who he is. And for Skye's older Crow wife, Victoria, the whole world is spinning out of control. In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to love another way?

NO. 16 OF

Virgin River

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 4 March 2008

Famed mountain man Barnaby Syke and his two wives, Victoria of the Crow and Mary of the Shoshone, lead a party of tubercular young people to the South Western desert. The ailing travellers hope to find a cure in the warm, dry climate near the Virgin River. Syke and his wives must safely lead their charges across Utah at a time of heightened tension between the federal government and the Latter-day Saints. Syke soon discovers that other wagon companies on the trail fear the sick and blame them for every ill event along the route. Taking a party of ailing people along the California trail requires every bit of skill and courage that Syke and his wives can muster...And hovering over the trip is the looming catastrophe of war.

NO. 12 OF

Downriver

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 1 March 2002

NO. 11 OF

Going Home

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 13 July 2001

NO. 18 OF

The Owl Hunt

by Richard S Wheeler

Published 7 December 2010

When a dour fifteen-year-old Shoshone is prompted by a total eclipse to rename himself after a dreaded totemic bird and stirring discontent on the Wind River Reservation, schoolteacher Dirk, the son of Barnaby Skye, struggles to mediate a dangerous uprising.