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About the author: Rick was raised in Alaska, where he hunted, fished, flew airplanes, guided hunters, served as a military policeman, and worked on the Alyeska Pipeline construction and the North Slope oil field as security. Anchorage Police hired him as an officer, and he progressed to crime scene tech and detective. He ended his working years as a building contractor and writer.



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Rick Steeby The mountains of the western United States, post-Civil War. Sheriff or US Marshal, after trying my hand at prospecting, long hunter, and scout.


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The mountains of the western United States, post-Civil War. Sheriff or US Marshal, after trying my hand at prospecting, long hunter, and scout.


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Rick Steeby Return to Sender by Craig Johnson and Deadline by Marc Cameron. No doubt a new Reacher book will come out, and rummaging in used book stores, I will f…moreReturn to Sender by Craig Johnson and Deadline by Marc Cameron. No doubt a new Reacher book will come out, and rummaging in used book stores, I will find a Clancy novel I haven't read and collected yet.
Chances are, I will revisit a few of my Louis L'Amour collection also. I will meet new authors at writing conferences and find many more books to read. So many books, so little time.
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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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Published on October 18, 2025 10:59 Tags: alaska, alaska-railroad, author, books, crime, fiction, mystery, novel, railroad, reading, the-last-frontier, writing

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Dead Line by Marc Cameron
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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
Gold Miner's Daughter by Rick Steeby
"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" Read more of this review »
Gold Miner's Daughter by Rick Steeby
"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" Read more of this review »
Gold Miner's Daughter by Rick Steeby
"Gold Miner’s Daughter is the kind of story that stays with you long after you’ve finished. The characters are unforgettable, the setting is vividly alive, and the mystery is gripping. I was hooked from beginning to end. This deserves a spot on every " Read more of this review »
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Stone Cross by Marc Cameron
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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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Return to Sender by Craig Johnson
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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
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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.”
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Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson
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The story was a good read, but for those of us who lived in Alaska most of our lives and worked on the North Slope of Alaska, some details didn't fit, but Craig is easy to forgive. I mention it only because details sometimes get in the way of a good ...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.”
Rick Steeby, 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.”
Rick Steeby, Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier

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