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American Frontier Books
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.21 — 291,027 ratings — published 1932
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,428 ratings — published 1996
Ride the Fire (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,815 ratings — published 2005
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 109,372 ratings — published 1937
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.21 — 305,334 ratings — published 1935
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.37 — 84,188 ratings — published 1998
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.60 — 275,729 ratings — published 1985
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.14 — 239,744 ratings — published 1985
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 — 105,472 ratings — published 1970
Defiant (MacKinnon's Rangers, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,636 ratings — published 2012
Untamed (MacKinnon's Rangers, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,084 ratings — published 2008
Surrender (MacKinnon’s Rangers, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,788 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 — 4,079 ratings — published 2021
Butcher's Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.18 — 42,166 ratings — published 1960
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.31 — 21,174 ratings — published 2006
By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,392 ratings — published 1939
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 — 28,901 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 — 42,830 ratings — published 2009
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.07 — 154,084 ratings — published 1992
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.97 — 56,506 ratings — published 2002
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 — 70,692 ratings — published 2010
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,318 ratings — published 2010
The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.18 — 94,378 ratings — published 1940
Dancing on Coals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,838 ratings — published 2011
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.70 — 103,869 ratings — published 1826
Sacajawea (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,468 ratings — published 1978
Follow the River (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.23 — 23,901 ratings — published 1980
The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,000 ratings — published 1949
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,241 ratings — published 1918
Where the Lost Wander (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.39 — 86,242 ratings — published 2020
Caroline: Little House, Revisited (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,997 ratings — published 2017
The Oregon Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,766 ratings — published 1849
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.45 — 699,421 ratings — published 1952
Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.06 — 185 ratings — published 2002
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.08 — 114,329 ratings — published 2016
Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.80 — 252 ratings — published 1993
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,800 ratings — published 1959
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.95 — 22,001 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 — 1,736 ratings — published 2002
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,974 ratings — published 2015
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,699 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 4.04 — 1,290 ratings — published 2017
Farmer Boy (Little House, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,854 ratings — published 1933
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,049 ratings — published 1927
Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier (Oklahoma Paperbacks Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.12 — 547 ratings — published 1996
Coming Up Roses (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,199 ratings — published 1993
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,019,900 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 4.09 — 1,082 ratings — published 2012
A Bride Most Begrudging (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,198 ratings — published 2005
Boone: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as american-frontier)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,230 ratings — published 2007
“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
