 After a while, he therefore switched careers to writing and research about this and related topics, writing or cowriting (often with his wife) a total of 86 books between 1967 and 2003, on topics such as the Oregon Trail, Japanese attacks on the Northwest during World War II, the Oregon coast and other features of Northwestern history such as the DeAutremont attempted train robbery and the rise and decline of Bayocean.He established Webb Research Group - Publishers, and its companion book distribution company Pacific Northwest Books Company.Webber's papers are in the Hoover Institution Archive at Stanford University.