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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
The Sisters Brothers
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)
Epitaph
True Grit
Doc Holliday: The Life And Legend
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)
Vengeance Road by Erin BowmanUnder a Painted Sky by Stacey  LeeWalk on Earth a Stranger by Rae CarsonRevenge and the Wild by Michelle ModestoBlood Red Road by Moira Young
TBPL YA Westerns
12 books — 13 voters
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'ConnellAnnie's Song by Catherine AndersonComanche Moon by Catherine AndersonDancing on Coals by Ellen O'ConnellTexas Destiny by Lorraine Heath
Favorite Historical Western Romance Novels
703 books — 1,305 voters

Billy the Kid by Robert M. UtleyThe Maverick Cookbook by Lynn ClineHigh Noon in Lincoln by Robert M. UtleyThe Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat F. GarrettTo Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner
Books About Billy the Kid
15 books — 11 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
268 books — 48 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
255 books — 9 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraNorth and South by John JakesCold Mountain by Charles FrazierForty-Ninth by Boris Pronsky
19th Century Historical Fiction
219 books — 69 voters

Dean F. Wilson
You hang your heroes. That way they’ll never disappoint you.' It also brought to mind his own retort: 'But what about your enemies? What about the villains? What do we do with those? ...more
Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

Pioneer men and women of color faced legal color bars everywhere. Territorial and state legislatures passed "Black Laws" that denied them the right to vote, serve in the militia or on juries, hold public office, or testify in court. Some states made it a criminal offense for anyone to bring in or employ a black woman or man from another state. To combat Black Laws, discriminatory customs, and white violence, people of color organized protest conventions and sent delegates to national black con ...more
William Loren Katz, Black Women of the Old West

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