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Rick Steeby
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Oswego, Kansas, The United States
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October 2025
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Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier
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Journey from Ice Road to Published Author:
Picture this: 2015, the frozen wilderness of Alaska's North Slope. I'm sitting in a pickup truck parked on sea ice near Oliktok Point, watching snow whip across the tundra for twelve hours a day. As a security guard for Nana Corporation, I monitored the ice road to Spy Island, checking in with truckers three or four times per shift to ensure their loads stayed within the engineers' safety limits.
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| The book is well written, and I plan to read the rest of the series. That's significant because it isn't the genre I generally go to on the bookshelf, but was recommended by a friend at the Killer Nashville Writers' conference. I bought it, then took ...more | |
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| I'm biased, and I love everything Marc has written. Alaska was my home for 40 years, and I have experienced the intense cold described in this book. Winter in the interior of Alaska, where temperatures can dip south of 50 below and stay there for a m ...more | |
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Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier:
"Excellent book by Rick Steeby. I loved the storyline and Mr. Steeby’s use of adjectives, analogies and everything else he used to make his story addictively readable. I delight in a story that transports me into the narrative as an on-the-spot observ"
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Francine Gerrish's review
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Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier:
"From the first page, I was completely immersed in the frozen world of Chicken, Alaska. The blend of murder mystery, frontier survival, and romance makes this book impossible to put down. Wyatt Peoples is a hero you’ll root for, flawed but deeply huma"
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| This was the first book I came across by MarcCameron in his Arliss Cutter series. I had read several of his books written for the Tom Clancy series. I grew up in Alaska and was in law enforcement there. A friend from the Anchorage Police who became C ...more | |
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Craig always writes great stories with characters who are just enough off the bubble to sound real. Poor Walt has been run through the meat grinder again. Mr Johnson never fails to entertain and has a descriptive ability to bring to life locations I ...more |
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“If Robert Service were alive in 1960, this is the Yukon poem he'd write—raw, dangerous, darkly funny, with characters as vast and unforgiving as the landscape.”
― Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier
― Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier
“If Robert Service were alive in 1960, this is the Yukon poem he'd write—raw, dangerous, darkly funny, with characters as vast and unforgiving as the landscape.”
― Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier
― Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier
