William Steele

Background

William O. Steele was born in 1917 in Franklin, Tennessee. He was the son of Core and Sue.

Career

He spent a large amount of his youth exploring the woods around his home. This led to an interest in the history of the area and of its pioneers. He became an author of thirty-nine books

He wrote his historical adventure stories in his home on Signal Mountain, Tennessee, which was the setting for many of his fiction stories.

Personal life

Death

He died in 1979.

Achievements

• His book, The Perilous Road, which was published in 1958, won the Newbery Honor in 1959. Winter Danger earned the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962.

Works

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  • The Buffalo Knife (Odyssey Classics (Odyssey Classics))

    ( Nine-year-old Andy and his family brave natural and man...)

  • The Man With the Silver Eyes

    (Until he learns the reason for the arrangement, a young C...)

  • The Perilous Road (Odyssey Classics (Odyssey Classics))

    ( The heartbreaking, bitter view of the Civil War as expe...)

  • Flaming Arrows (Odyssey Classics (Odyssey Classics))

    ( Chad's family takes refuge from vicious Chickamauga rai...)

  • Winter Danger (Odyssey Classics)

    ( A harsh winter forces mountain folk Caje Amis and his f...)

  • The Spooky Thing

    (Two ill-tempered brothers mend their ways after an encoun...)

  • Perilous Road: Novel-Ties Study Guide

    (Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided readin...)

  • The Old Wilderness Road: An American Journey
  • Wilderness Journey

    (Illustrations by Paul Galdone. A ten-year-old boy, Flan T...)

  • No-Name Man of the Mountain

    (Children's book.)

  • (Winter Danger ) Author: William O. Steele Sep-2004
  • Tomahawks and Trouble
  • 2 Books: Tomahawk Border, and, the perilous Road
  • The Buffalo Knife (Odyssey Classics (Odyssey Classics)) by William O. Steele (2004-09-01)
  • The Buffalo Knife By Steele, William O. ( Author ) 2004 ) Paperback
  • William O. Steele Set (The Perilous Road & Winter Danger)
  • (The Buffalo Knife ) Author: William O. Steele Sep-2004
  • Tomahawks and Troubles