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I grew up in Alaska, where the wilderness shaped everything — my instincts, my stories, and my characters. I hunted, fished, flew airplanes, guided hunters, and worked on the Alyeska Pipeline and the North Slope oil fields before joining the Anchorage Police Department, where I rose from officer to crime scene technician and detective. I ended my working years as a building contractor — and a writer determined to write the book I wanted to read. Thirteen manuscripts and years of learning the craft later, I believe I finally wrote a story you will want to read too.
The seed for Gold Miner's Daughter was planted in 2015 on Alaska's North Slope. I spent six weeks as a security guard monitoring an ice road on sea ice near Oliktok Point, checking
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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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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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Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

I hated reading in school. Then the Almighty parked me in a truck at Sourdough, Alaska, twelve hours a night, fifty-five below outside, not another soul for miles. There’s only so long you can stare at a windshield. So I read, and I found out I liked it.

Twenty-five years later, I was facing forced retirement due to hips, shoulders, and a few spinal disks that had worn out. I found myself once more Read more of this blog post »
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As a fan, I waited impatiently for the latest book without knowing what was coming, because as a writer, I was up to my eyeballs busy.

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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.” ...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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