Westerns

Author

Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989

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A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor, a sexy revolutionary, and a polygamist outdoorsman team up in a concerted effort to halt what they see as a big government/big business conspiracy to destroy the environment of the American West.

2) Little Big Man: a novel

Author

Berger, Thomas, 1924-

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The life story of Jack Crabb, 111 years old and the son of two fathers. He recounts his life as a Cheyenne Indian and as a white man.

3) Open season

Author

Box, C. J

Series

Joe Pickett
Joe Pickett novels; volume 1
Joe Pickett novel volume 1

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As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.

4) Horse

Author

Brooks, Geraldine

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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...

5) The hacienda

Author

Cañas, Isabel

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"Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize...

6) O pioneers!

Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Series

Great Plains Trilogy
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Willa Cather's powerful story about a family of farmers-an instant American classic The first novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of immigrants eking out a hardscrabble life as farmers in Nebraska at the turn of the nineteenth century. Alexandra, the eldest child of Bergson patriarch John, inherits the family farm when her father dies. Left to raise her father's three sons and somehow turn a struggling...

7) My Antonia

Author

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Series

Great Plains Trilogy

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A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers,...

8) The enchanted hacienda

Author

Cervantes, J. C. (Jennifer C.)

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"Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she's chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity"-- Provided by publisher.

9) The ox-bow incident

Author

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971

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A cowboy is unable to prevent three wandering travellers from being unjustly lynched for murder.

10) The Sisters brothers: a novel

Author

deWitt, Patrick, 1975-

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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.

11) English Creek

Author

Doig, Ivan

Series

Montana trilogy
Two Medicine Trilogy volume 1

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The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during...

12) The plague of doves

Author

Erdrich, Louise

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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.

13) Riders of the purple sage

Author

Grey, Zane, 1872-1939

Series

Riders of the Purple Sage

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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.

14) The Lone Star Ranger

Author

Grey, Zane

Series

Pan Handle Smith Trilogy

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An outlaw redeems himself helping Texas Rangers fight cattle rustlers in this action-packed classic Western written by an American icon.
The premier chronicler of the American West, legendary storyteller Zane Grey has captivated millions of readers with his timeless adventures of life, death, gunfire, and justice. This is the Old West in all its glory and grandeur. Forged in blood. Enflamed by passion. Emblazoned with bullets...

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15) El Paso: a novel

Author

Groom, Winston, 1944-

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When the Colonel's famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided, it was Pancho Villa who not only stole the cattle but also murdered the ranch manager. Even worse, Villa's henchmen abduct the Colonel’s grandchildren in another daring raid only days later. Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo on his own turf. But their deep pockets and political...

16) The Big Sky

Author

Guthrie, A. B., Jr

Series

Big Sky

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The Big Sky begins A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s epic western saga that spans over a hundred years in the course of six novels. We are introduced to Boone Caudill, who travels the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, leaving his abusive father to find a life of freedom in the wild. Along the way he gains the friendship of Jim Deakins and Dick Summers, men who share his dream of a life of trapping and exploring. Caudill also wins the love of a beautiful

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17) Little Big Man

Author

Hoffman, Dustin

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One hundred year-old white man recounts how he was raised by Native Americans, became a gunslinger, and survived the battle at Little Big Horn.

18) Simon the fiddler: a novel

Author

Jiles, Paulette, 1943-

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"In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position...

19) News of the world

Author

Jiles, Paulette, 1943-

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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...

20) The cold dish

Author

Johnson, Craig, 1961-

Series

Walt Longmire mystery
Walt Longmire

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Introducing Wyoming’s Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson—the first in the Longmire mystery series

The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+

Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, in which Craig Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary...

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