Old West


Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Doc
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
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
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)
True Grit
Epitaph
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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
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
270 books — 49 voters
A Texas Cow Boy by Charles A. SiringoThe Bastard Boys of Montezuma by Jaromy HenryAb-sa-ra-ka, Home of the Crows by Margaret Irvin CarringtonThe Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace by John Crittenden DuvalAdventures with Indians and Game, or, Twenty Years in the Roc... by William A.  Allen
Classics of the Old West
32 books — 3 voters

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneBlood and Thunder by Hampton SidesBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Last Gunfight by Jeff GuinnLasso the Wind by Timothy Egan
Great books about the Old West
285 books — 36 voters
Billy the Kid by Robert M. UtleyThe Maverick Cookbook by Lynn ClineHigh Noon in Lincoln by Robert M. UtleyBilly the Kid in Santa Fe, Book One by Lynn MichelsohnThe Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat F. Garrett
Books About Billy the Kid
15 books — 11 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
258 books — 10 voters
The Virginian by Owen WisterThe Light of Western Stars by Zane GreyThe Three Godfathers by Peter B. KyneOverland Red by Henry Herbert KnibbsThe Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey
Early Westerns, 1880-1915
83 books — 11 voters

George Armstrong Custer
Ah! said the doctor, in his most complacent manner, "here is the opportunity I have long been waiting for. I have often desired to test and taste the indian mode of cooking. What do you suppose this is?" holding up the dripping morsel. Unable to obtain the desired information, the doctor, whose naturally good appetite had been sensibly sharpened by his recent exercise á la quadrupède, set to with a will and ate heartily of the mysterious contents of the kettle. "What can this be?" again inqui ...more
George Custer, My Life on the Plains (Illustrated & Annotated): Personal Experiences With Indians

V.J. Madsen
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 ...more
V.J. Madsen, Reaper's Dice

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