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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
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The Time It Never Rained
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The Sisters Brothers
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The Big Sky
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Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
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Shane
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The Virginian
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Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1)
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Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
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Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
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Ever the Wayward Sky
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Buffalo Girls
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway, #1)
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Arrow in the Sun
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Doc
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,512 ratings
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Waco's Debt (Floating Outfit, #50)
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The Searchers
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The Last Picture Show
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The Ox-Bow Incident
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The Ysabel Kid (Floating Outfit, #1)
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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Winter Harvest
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Vengeance and Grace: Two Roads Travelled
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Long Road To Abilene (Cade McCall #1)
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Armed Men and Armadillos
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The Bastard Boys of Montezuma
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Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill (One Thousand White Women, #3)
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Hanging Fire (Joe Noose #2)
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Legend of the Horizon Vengeance (The Two Revolvers Saga, #2)
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The Rushers (Floating Outfit, #42)
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West Of The War (The Montana Series)
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The Bitter Harvest
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Riders to Cibola
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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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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
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The Drifter (Waco, #5)
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The Lawmen
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Valdez Is Coming: A Novel
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The Dark Horse (Walt Longmire, #5)
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Trigger Fast
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The Legend of Ben Tree
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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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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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Dream West
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Some Went West
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Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: The Best Stories of the American West
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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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The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
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The Pride of Hannah Wade
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The Way West
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The Great Alone
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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?
