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Old West Books
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.57 — 230,547 ratings — published 1985
Empire of the Summer Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,742 ratings — published 2010
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,390 ratings — published 2011
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,819 ratings — published 2011
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 12 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,511 ratings — published 2019
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 212,114 ratings — published 1985
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,918 ratings — published 1970
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.30 — 19,631 ratings — published 2006
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 9 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,298 ratings — published 2017
Epitaph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,352 ratings — published 2015
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,743 ratings — published 2010
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 7 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,018 ratings — published 2020
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,439 ratings — published 1968
Doc Holliday: The Life And Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.98 — 766 ratings — published 2006
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,470 ratings — published 2016
Six-Gun Snow White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,497 ratings — published 2013
Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,024 ratings — published 2013
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,905 ratings — published 1902
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.73 — 860 ratings — published 2007
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.00 — 795 ratings — published 1997
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,402 ratings — published 2002
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 143,277 ratings — published 1992
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,058 ratings — published 1996
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.47 — 734 ratings — published 2005
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.84 — 89,994 ratings — published 1985
Vengeance Road (Vengeance Road, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,557 ratings — published 2015
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.96 — 54,052 ratings — published 2002
Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,381 ratings — published 2014
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,338 ratings — published 2010
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,754 ratings — published 2009
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,464 ratings — published 2008
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 23,539 ratings — published 1995
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,784 ratings — published 1964
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,039 ratings — published 1993
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,139 ratings — published 2023
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.88 — 290 ratings — published 2018
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,730 ratings — published 2016
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.63 — 586 ratings — published 2015
Rapunzel's Revenge (Rapunzel's Revenge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,845 ratings — published 2008
Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,168 ratings — published 2015
Under a Painted Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,803 ratings — published 2015
Beautiful Bad Man (Sutton Family, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,189 ratings — published 2012
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 37,562 ratings — published 2013
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,036 ratings — published 2010
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.36 — 81,176 ratings — published 1998
Redeeming Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.51 — 365,334 ratings — published 1991
Calamity Jack (Rapunzel's Revenge, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,064 ratings — published 2010
Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 181 ratings — published 2002
The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,141 ratings — published 2023
“He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter's fire on the prairie, after the hunter was up and gone; the coals would be trampled out, but the ground was warm, and the flattened grass where he had slept and where his pony had grazed, told the story.
This was the very end of the road-making West; the men who had put plains and mountains under the iron harness were old; some were poor, and even the successful ones were hunting for a rest and a brief reprieve from death. It was already gone, that age; nothing could ever bring it back. The taste and smell and song of it, the visions those men had seen in the air and followed, - these he had caught in a kind of afterglow in their own faces, - and this would always be his.”
― A Lost Lady
This was the very end of the road-making West; the men who had put plains and mountains under the iron harness were old; some were poor, and even the successful ones were hunting for a rest and a brief reprieve from death. It was already gone, that age; nothing could ever bring it back. The taste and smell and song of it, the visions those men had seen in the air and followed, - these he had caught in a kind of afterglow in their own faces, - and this would always be his.”
― A Lost Lady
“What I inherited from my father is the need to drink. But not regular alcohol of course. I developed a taste for a very special wine called hatred."
Jarley takes his glass of wine as he explains. "It's a bitter wine. So bitter in fact, that the uninitiated will spit it out or feel physically ill from drinking it. But some who partake in it will find little nuances to the flavor. The tangy aftertaste of indulging in violent fantasies against the object of your hatred."
He shakes the glass as he speaks. "The warm buzzed feeling from acts of spite and violence towards what you hate."
He savors the smell of the wine. "It keeps getting more noticeable the more you drink. You keep going and going, drinking and drinking, you pick apart all the layers of taste until you finally find it."
He takes a sip. "There's a hint of sweetness in the wine. You've found a sort of warm joy and comfort in the compulsion to detest the object of your hatred. Once that happens, there's no going back. You'll be hooked on the drink for life.”
― Reaper's Dice
Jarley takes his glass of wine as he explains. "It's a bitter wine. So bitter in fact, that the uninitiated will spit it out or feel physically ill from drinking it. But some who partake in it will find little nuances to the flavor. The tangy aftertaste of indulging in violent fantasies against the object of your hatred."
He shakes the glass as he speaks. "The warm buzzed feeling from acts of spite and violence towards what you hate."
He savors the smell of the wine. "It keeps getting more noticeable the more you drink. You keep going and going, drinking and drinking, you pick apart all the layers of taste until you finally find it."
He takes a sip. "There's a hint of sweetness in the wine. You've found a sort of warm joy and comfort in the compulsion to detest the object of your hatred. Once that happens, there's no going back. You'll be hooked on the drink for life.”
― Reaper's Dice
