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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
698 books — 173 voters
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderSarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlanThe Beauty in Her Soul by Vesela PattonLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Children's Frontier Fiction
310 books — 84 voters

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartTomboy Bride by Harriet Fish BackusWe Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" AbbottDoc Susie by Virginia CornellA Bride Goes West by Nannie T. Alderson
The Old West in First Person
269 books — 48 voters
Where the Lost Wander by Amy HarmonUnder a Painted Sky by Stacey LeeAcross the Wide and Lonesome Prairie by Kristiana GregoryBound for Oregon by Jean Van LeeuwenAll Together in One Place by Jane Kirkpatrick
Oregon Trail fiction
54 books — 45 voters

Blood and Thunder by Hampton SidesEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Last Gunfight by Jeff GuinnLasso the Wind by Timothy Egan
Great books about the Old West
289 books — 40 voters
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey LeeVengeance Road by Erin BowmanGrace and the Guiltless by Erin JohnsonGunslinger Girl by Lyndsay ElyRetribution Rails by Erin Bowman
YA Westerns
35 books — 30 voters

Outback Odyssey by Paul Rushworth-BrownCoyote Moon by Rick JustMy Ántonia by Willa CatherThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughThese Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
Pioneer Women
101 books — 28 voters
Her Secret Cowboy Billionaire by Cynthia WoolfRed Black Dawn by Lea BronsenTwin Springs Ranch by Isla RyderLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBoone's Lick by Larry McMurtry
Westerns, Western Romance, Cowboys, and the Old West
95 books — 25 voters

Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtryTwin Springs Ranch by Isla RyderLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryCloudy in the West by Elmer KeltonOpen Season by C.J. Box
Books with Cowboys
112 books — 22 voters
The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow by Rachel AaronOf Honey and Wildfires by Sarah ChornThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingRed Country by Joe AbercrombieWhere Blood Runs Gold by A.C. Cross
Fantasy Westerns
39 books — 19 voters

Santiago by Mike ResnickEarthrise by M.C.A. HogarthInto the Dark by J.A. SutherlandStalker's Luck by Chris StrangeFortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
Best Space Westerns
61 books — 16 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckSon of the Mountain by M.J. HayesInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Reject Society, Live in the Woods
97 books — 13 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisThe Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtryRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane GreyRed Black Dawn by Lea Bronsen
Favorite American West Novels
72 books — 12 voters
Blood and Thunder by Hampton SidesThe Captured by Scott ZeschJohn Ringo by Jack BurrowsAnd Die in the West by Paula Mitchell MarksBoots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Favourite Old West History Reads
260 books — 11 voters

Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. TurnerRed Black Dawn by Lea BronsenThe Red Pony by John SteinbeckThe Bastard Boys of Montezuma by Jaromy HenryCrack in the Sky by Terry C. Johnston
Frontier/Western
14 books — 10 voters
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan BannenThe Last Bargain by Valentina SantamariaThe Gunslinger by Stephen KingLone Women by Victor LaValleDead Cowpokes Don't Wrangle by Mars Adler
Weird Wild West
22 books — 8 voters

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonaldPioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best American Memoirs of Life Before 1940
101 books — 7 voters
Sunset Embrace by Sandra BrownWillow by Carolyn BrownWagon Train Reunion by Linda FordBackwards to Oregon by JaeEmma's Journey by Callie Hutton
ROMANCE: WAGON TRAIN/TRAIL
85 books — 6 voters

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderOx-Cart Man by Donald HallWagons Ho! by George HallowellThe Great Salt Lake Massacre by Scott SiegelAlways Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas
Covered Wagons on the Cover
100 books — 6 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinPhantasms of the Living (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiri... by Edmund GurneyAdventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas LeonardThe Demon of the Orient, and His Satellite Fiends of the Joints by Allen Samuel WilliamsTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Nonfiction Books Published in the 19th Century
236 books — 6 voters

The Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls WilderRed Settlement by Henry TreeceTidewater by Libbie HawkerJersey Blue by Rebecca SingletonTides of Acadia by Phillip Daigle
European Settlement of North America (fiction)
8 books — 4 voters
The Jump-Off Creek by Molly GlossThe Hearts of Horses by Molly GlossThe Riddle Maker by Bruce BorgosInland by Téa ObrehtFather Brother Keeper by Nathan Poole
slice of life westerns
5 books — 3 voters

Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel V. ChamberlainAdventures in Two Worlds by A.J. CroninViolence by Rory MillerNo Better Place to Die by Peter CozzensWhere the Indus Is Young by Dervla Murphy
Undervalued Nonfiction
123 books — 3 voters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithOne Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora WeltyMemories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthyA Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin GarlandAn Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
Memoirs and Autobiographies of American Childhood Before World War II
54 books — 2 voters

Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
Femme Western
1 book — 1 voter
Heck's Journey by John DeaconMoe Hankins by R.O. LaneBushwa by Ron SchwabBurning Ground by D.A. GallowayThe Provider by John Deacon
Fresh Classic Westerns
20 books — 1 voter

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