OFFICIAL SITE OF CHARLIE STEEL AUTHOR

TALE-WEAVER EXTRAORDINAIRE

About Charlie Steel

Some men dream and never live, others live and never dream. Charlie Steel put heart into countless dreams and brought them to life just as he has done with the people in his tales. Charlie Steel has worked since early childhood and has held jobs that young men admire and old men envy. Steel has traveled widely, read voraciously, and has obtained five university degrees, including a Ph.D. He is the common man; he is the eccentric man. Hunting, fishing and the solitude of the outdoors are his great loves. This solitude provides him with the catalyst for many stories. Charlie Steel believes that what one tries to accomplish in life is as important as what one achieves.
Publisher, CONDOR PUBLISHING, INC

Tom Sharp

The Man And The Legend (A Novel)

TOM SHARP: The Man and the Legend (A Novel) is a fast-paced, hard-hitting, and carefully-woven mixture of fact and fiction about a young wounded Confederate soldier from Marion County, Missouri, who became a famous and respected Westerner.

Discharged from his enlistment, Tom Sharp joined a wagon train and traveled west. He aimed to earn his fortune, homestead a ranch, marry Katherine Durrett, the lovely young lady he was betrothed to, and start a family. On his dangerous and exciting quest, Sharp encountered renegades, Indians, and slavers–as well as frontiersmen who taught him how to survive in the mountains and on the plains.

Although many of the tales are based on actual events and adventures that Tom Sharp experienced, author Charlie Steel engages his craft as a master storyteller and embellishes and adds situations to honor the accomplishments and integrity of this great man from Colorado.

Tom Sharp’s life, embellished or not, is a story that needs to be told. He was a soldier, buffalo hunter, meat provider for the California and Oregon gold miners, meat provider for the Union Pacific Railroad workers, multiline telegraph pole cutter for the railroad, deputy sheriff, rancher, established and ran a copper stamping mill, built and operated Buzzard Roost Trading Post, bred thoroughbred horses, raised cattle, and was an advocate for Indians, especially Chief Ouray and his band of Utes.

Steel writes a story that rivets the reader creating well-rounded characters that provide a unique and more realistic perspective of the WEST.

 

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ADVENTURE! ACTION! ROMANCE!

RETWO WOMEN CONQUER THE WEST (AND THEIR HEARTS)

TWO WOMEN CONQUER THE WEST (AND THEIR HEARTS) is a fast-paced, thoroughly entertaining, ‘Traditional Western’ with romantic conflict. A beautiful, educated, single woman loses her parents, inherits great wealth, and at the same time becomes extremely despondent at her loss. A rich uncle intervenes and purchases a ranch out West to help her push away her grief. He then acquires an attractive widow companion, Blanche, and a tough bodyguard, George, for protection. He sends the three to Golden, Colorado, on an adventure of a lifetime. The women become endeared to the West, meet charming cowboys, and face rustlers and very bad men. It is an adventure, a romance, and historical fiction at it’s best.

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COMMENTS BY CHARLIE

Like a giant condor soaring high in the air, a good story should give the same thrill and feeling of exuberance. MY ONE GREAT DESIRE IS THAT ALL OF MY STORIES BE UPLIFTING TO THE READER.  

I suppose all writers have their own unique experiences that cause them to become authors. What contributed to my love of the written word and the  western genre, was the small hidden library belonging to my father.  In it were the books that were in part compiled when my father courted my mother and he gave her gifts of Zane Grey, James Oliver Curwood, Gene Stratton Porter, Margaret Mitchell, and other such literature.  At age seven, I opened that built-in cupboard.  I found inside the books’ covers countless endearments  inscribed by my father to my mother.  I then began reading those books, those gifts of love, and never stopped. Those books transformed me.  From that time of my childhood and into my adulthood, I never went anywhere without a book.

Another influence to becoming a writer started at age five (it was a small town in the fifties). I would walk down to the Saturday afternoon matinee.  For a quarter, and then later for fifty cents, I watched Hop-along Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Randolph Scott, and so many others on that large screen.  For me there were four worlds in my childhood.  One was the world of a book, another was the world created on that screen on Saturday afternoons, the third was the magic of forest and stream, and the fourth was real life.

Reality struck eventually.  There were many jobs before, during, and after college.  They ranged from working in a grocery store starting at ten years of age, to construction worker, to salvage diver, to oil field worker, and government work behind the Iron curtain—AND, more than twentyother different occupations.

I began writing at age twenty and, while attending college, I completed many short stories, two plays, and a novel.  It took me eight years to finish my final degree.  I worked for the government and raised a family and from time to time continued to write. My closet shelves filled with completed manuscripts, including many novels.  Eventually, I left work and moved to a large ranch out west.  After thirty-five years my manuscripts fell into the hands of a publisher who continues to edit and print that body of work.

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Western Writers Of America

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Zane Grey's West Society

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Western Fictioneers

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