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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.61 avg rating — 295,552 ratings
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Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 15,601 ratings
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The Time It Never Rained
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4.33 avg rating — 2,412 ratings
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The Sisters Brothers
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3.85 avg rating — 106,093 ratings
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The Big Sky
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4.01 avg rating — 6,028 ratings
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Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
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4.18 avg rating — 25,079 ratings
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Shane
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3.96 avg rating — 15,743 ratings
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The Virginian
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3.91 avg rating — 10,417 ratings
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Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 9,744 ratings
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Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 32,435 ratings
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Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 30,588 ratings
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Ever the Wayward Sky
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4.58 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Buffalo Girls
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3.70 avg rating — 3,564 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.14 avg rating — 249,751 ratings
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The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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Arrow in the Sun
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4.04 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Doc
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,964 ratings
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Waco's Debt (Floating Outfit, #50)
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4.28 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Searchers
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4.22 avg rating — 4,448 ratings
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The Last Picture Show
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23,087 ratings
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The Ox-Bow Incident
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3.88 avg rating — 6,912 ratings
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The Ysabel Kid (Floating Outfit, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 766 ratings
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 157,989 ratings
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Winter Harvest
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3.96 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Vengeance and Grace: Two Roads Travelled
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Long Road To Abilene (Cade McCall #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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Armed Men and Armadillos
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4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Bastard Boys of Montezuma
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill (One Thousand White Women, #3)
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4.03 avg rating — 2,332 ratings
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Hanging Fire (Joe Noose #2)
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3.84 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Legend of the Horizon Vengeance (The Two Revolvers Saga, #2)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Rushers (Floating Outfit, #42)
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West Of The War (The Montana Series)
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4.43 avg rating — 572 ratings
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The Bitter Harvest
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Riders to Cibola
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3.99 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Noose (Joe Noose #1)
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The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
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3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 50,987 ratings
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The Drifter (Waco, #5)
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4.36 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Lawmen
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3.97 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Valdez Is Coming: A Novel
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4.08 avg rating — 3,753 ratings
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The Dark Horse (Walt Longmire, #5)
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4.30 avg rating — 22,274 ratings
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Trigger Fast
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4.30 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Legend of Ben Tree
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Open Range
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Our Time In The Sun
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Hannahs Gift
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Riders of Judgement (Danny Duggin, #3)
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Zeke and Ned
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Cuchilo (Floating Outfit, #22)
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The Devil's Gunslinger
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Troubled Range
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3.97 avg rating — 240 ratings
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From Where the Sun Now Stands
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Eye For Eye
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Texas Rifles and Massacre at Goliad
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Six Bits a Day
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Justice of Company Z (Alvin Dustine 'Cap' Fog, #3)
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Riders to Cibola
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A Town Called Yellowdog (Floating Outfit, #23)
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Texas Glory
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Boone's Lick
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The Smiling Country
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Arizona Ranger
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Gone the Dreams and Dancing
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Trail Boss (Floating Outfit, #10)
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Mr. Pettigrew (The Nemesis Series, #2)
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Sin Killer (The Berrybender Narratives, #1)
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Honey in the Horn
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Season of Yellow Leaf
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Nemesis (The Nemesis Series, #1)
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The Son
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Monte Walsh
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Watch for Me on the Mountain
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Set Texas Back on Her Feet (Floating Outfit, #6)
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A Gun for Braggs' Woman
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Under the Stars and Bars (Civil War, #5)
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The Covered Wagon
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The Heritage of the Desert
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Fire on the Mountain
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Keowee Valley
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Sacajawea
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Filaree: A Novel of an American Woman
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Ride the Wind: Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche
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4.40 avg rating — 6,585 ratings
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Dream West
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Some Went West
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: The Best Stories of the American West
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3.99 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Fair Land, Fair Land (The Big Sky, #3)
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These Thousand Hills: An Epic Literary Classic of 1880s Montana – Western Drama and Frontier Ambition
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3.81 avg rating — 458 ratings
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The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 6,028 ratings
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The Pride of Hannah Wade
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3.79 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Way West
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The Great Alone
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This Calder Sky (Calder Saga, #3)
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My list started with 10. Thanks for the additions. Those who favor Louis L'Amour should read Elmer Kelton. L'Amour was just a hack writer. Much of the low reputation westerns suffer in literary circles is due to his work.
Elmore Leonard has contributed great short stories to this genre.
With limit of 10, I didn't give Elmer Kelton his fair share; however, others here have acknowledged him.
Is this designed to comment only on books read ? I really want to read the floating outfit series. Is there a way to actually read these books here?
