Stories of Western Adventure Saturday

Come and meet Western adventure writer Rick Steber Saturday April 3 as he speaks and signs books at 12 p.m. and 2  3 p.m. (moved from 2 pm)

This dynamic storyteller and prolific author of travel books to Western adventure novels reads from some of his works, which have titles such as Forty Candles on a Cowboy Cake, Buy the Chief a Cadillac, New York to Nome and Wild Horse Rider.

Rick Steber has gained a well-deserved national reputation and is best known for writing honest stories about the strong people and the open landscapes of the Old West. His gift to all of us is saving the stories of people that otherwise would be lost and forgotten.

In addition to his skill as a writer, Rick Steber is and engaging Western personality, one of a handful of writers who can make characters come alive as he tells a story. Rick writes in a cabin tucked away in the timbered folds of the Ochoco Mountains of Central Oregon. He is married to Kristi and they have two sons, Seneca and Dusty.

Some praise for his work:
"Steber's writing is plain, picturesque, almost Hemingwayesque; the measure that lends dignity and understanding to the colorful past." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

"Rick Steber captures beautifully the mood of the times and of the sturdy people who lived it." ( St. Louis Post- Dispatch)

"Steber's words remind you of Hemingway or Fitzgerald...." (LA Times)

" The stories spun by Steber prove that history can be not only interesting, but entertaining." (The Oregonian)

"Steber evokes an era that you need not have lived through to regret its passing." (Sports Illustrated)

"His (Steber's) prose is deliciously entertaining ... I shouted out passages to anyone in earshot. I simply loved it." (Gannett Westchester Newspapers)