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American Frontier Books
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,932 ratings — published 1996
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.21 — 286,238 ratings — published 1932
Ride the Fire (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,755 ratings — published 2005
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.58 — 243,011 ratings — published 1985
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 107,561 ratings — published 1937
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.21 — 302,296 ratings — published 1935
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.36 — 81,987 ratings — published 1998
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,644 ratings — published 1970
Defiant (MacKinnon's Rangers, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,624 ratings — published 2012
Untamed (MacKinnon's Rangers, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,076 ratings — published 2008
Surrender (MacKinnon’s Rangers, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,766 ratings — published 2006
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,866 ratings — published 2021
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,258 ratings — published 2006
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.96 — 54,961 ratings — published 2002
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.15 — 221,904 ratings — published 1985
By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.18 — 82,928 ratings — published 1939
Butcher's Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,448 ratings — published 1960
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.82 — 27,801 ratings — published 2019
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,083 ratings — published 2009
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.06 — 147,130 ratings — published 1992
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.25 — 67,663 ratings — published 2010
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,675 ratings — published 2010
The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.18 — 92,917 ratings — published 1940
Dancing on Coals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,684 ratings — published 2011
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.70 — 102,354 ratings — published 1826
Sacajawea (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,398 ratings — published 1978
Follow the River (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 23,421 ratings — published 1980
The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,885 ratings — published 1949
The Oregon Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,717 ratings — published 1849
Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.07 — 183 ratings — published 2002
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,413 ratings — published 2016
Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.79 — 245 ratings — published 1993
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,751 ratings — published 1959
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,653 ratings — published 2017
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Search and Recover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,698 ratings — published 2002
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,654 ratings — published 2015
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,610 ratings — published 2014
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,256 ratings — published 2017
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.97 — 43,390 ratings — published 1927
Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier (Oklahoma Paperbacks Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.13 — 540 ratings — published 1996
Coming Up Roses (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,153 ratings — published 1993
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.03 — 996,418 ratings — published 1939
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,060 ratings — published 2012
A Bride Most Begrudging (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,103 ratings — published 2005
Boone: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,160 ratings — published 2007
Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,001 ratings — published 1976
Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,885 ratings — published 1941
The First Four Years (Little House, #9)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.87 — 44,897 ratings — published 1971
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.17 — 72,992 ratings — published 1968
Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.12 — 43,673 ratings — published 1998
“She was glad of this, her mind turning a corner as she let go of the past.”
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“In the decade following the Civil War the impetus of the westward movement and the implied pledge of the victorious Republican Party to develop the West were uncontrollable forces urging the agricultural frontier forward. On the level of the imagination it was therefore necessary that the settlers' battle with drought and dust and wind and grasshoppers should be supported by the westward expansion of the myth of the garden. In order to establish itself in the vast new area of the plains, however, the myth of the garden had to confront and overcome another myth of exactly opposed meaning, although of inferior strength - the myth of the Great American Desert.”
― Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
― Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
