William O. Steele Bibliography
| William Owen Steele was
born in Franklin, Tennessee
in 1917. He graduated
from Cumberland College
in 1940 and served in the armed forces for five
years. It was as a boy exploring the woods around his home that began his
interest in the pioneers of Tennessee,
of which most of his stories
centered upon. His
first book was published in 1951. He was married
to Mary Quintard Govan Steele, who was an author
in her own right. William O. Steele died in 1979
in Signal Mountain, Tennessee. |
Books:
The Golden Root
(Aladdin, 1951)
The Buffalo Knife illustrated
by Paul Galdone
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1952)
Over-Mountain Boy
illustrated by Fritz Kredel
(Aladdin, 1952)
John Sevier, Pioneer
Boy (Childhood
of Famous Americans)
(Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1953)
The Story of Daniel Boone
(Signature
Books)
illustrated by Warren Baumgartner
(Grosset
& Dunlap, 1953)
Wilderness Journey illustrated
by Paul Galdone
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1953)
Winter Danger illustrated by Paul Galdone
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1954)
Francis Marion: Young Swamp
Fox (Childhood of Famous Americans) illustrated by Frank Nicholas
(Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1954)
The Story of Leif Ericson
(Signature Books) illustrated
by Pranas Lape
(
Grosset &
Dunlap, 1954)
Tomahawks and Trouble illustrated
by Paul Galdone
(Harcourt, Brace &
Company, 1955)
We Were There On the Oregon Trail illustrated by Jo Polseno
(Grosset & Dunlap, 1955)
Flaming Arrows illustrated
by Paul Galdone
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1955)
De Soto, Child of the Sun:
The Search for Gold
(Aladdin, 1956)
The Lone Hunt illustrated by
Paul Galdone
(Harcourt, Brace &
Company, 1956)
We Were There with the Pony
Express illustrated by Frank Vaughn
(Grosset & Dunlap, 1956)
Davy Crockett's Earthquake illustrated
by Frank Nicholas
(Harcourt, Brace &
Company, 1956)
Daniel Boone's Echo
(Harcourt, Brace
& Company, 1957)
The Perilous Road
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1958)
The Far Frontier illustrated
by Paul Galdone
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1959)
Andy Jackson's Water Well illustrated by Michael Ramus
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1959)
The Spooky Thing illustrated by Paul
Coker, Jr.
(Harcourt, Brace & World,
1960)
Westward Adventure: The True Stories of Six
Pioneers illustrated by Kathleen Voute
(Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962)
Long Hunter
(Science Research Associates, 1963)
The Year of the Bloody Sevens
illustrated
by Charles Beck
(Harcourt,
Brace & World, 1963)
The No-name Man of the
Mountain illustrated by Jack Davis
(Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964)
Trail Through Danger illustrated
by Charles Beck
(Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965)
Tomahawk Border illustrated
by Vernon Wooten
(Holt, Rinehart,1966)
The Old Wilderness Road: An
American Journey
(Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968)
Wayah of the Real People
(
Holt,
Rinehart and
Winston, 1970)
Hound Dog Zip to the Rescue illustrated by Mimi Korach
(Garrard Pub.
Co., 1970)
The Wilderness Tattoo: A
Narrative of Juan Ortiz
(Harcourt, Brace &
World, 1972)
Triple Trouble for Hound Dog
Zip illustrated by Mimi
Korach
(Garrard Pub. Co.,
1972)
Henry Woodward of Carolina,
Surgeon, Trader, Indian Chief
(Sandlapper
Press, 1972)
The Eye in the Forest (co-authored with Mary Quintard Govan
Steele)
(Dutton, 1975)
John's Secret Treasure
(Macmillan Publishing Co., 1975)
The Man With the Silver Eyes
(Harcourt,
Brace & Company, 1976)
The Cherokee Crown of
Tannassy
(J. F. Blair Publisher, 1977)
Talking Bones: Secrets of
Indian Burial Mounds illustrated by Carlos Llerena-Aquirre
(Harpercollins Juvenile Books, 1978)
The War Party Pictures
by Lorinda Bryan Cauley
(Harcourt, Brace &
World, 1978)
The Magic Amulet
(Harcourt, Brace
& Company, 1979)
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