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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.61 — 298,514 ratings — published 1985
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 107,150 ratings — published 1970
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.31 — 21,671 ratings — published 2006
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 82 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 72,391 ratings — published 2010
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.24 — 63,566 ratings — published 1971
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 140,381 ratings — published 1998
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 251,140 ratings — published 1985
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 158,525 ratings — published 1992
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.23 — 70,413 ratings — published 1996
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,580 ratings — published 1968
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 82,137 ratings — published 1968
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 475,704 ratings — published 2017
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,398 ratings — published 2009
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,417 ratings — published 2013
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,373 ratings — published 1954
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,348 ratings — published 1986
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,120 ratings — published 1927
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 115,393 ratings — published 2016
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 273,171 ratings — published 2005
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 153,298 ratings — published 1918
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,035,605 ratings — published 1939
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 61,250 ratings — published 1913
The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,046 ratings — published 1947
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.24 — 45,116 ratings — published 2009
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,679 ratings — published 2010
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,976 ratings — published 2019
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,890 ratings — published 2002
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,814 ratings — published 2005
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 51,146 ratings — published 1994
Centennial (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 45,992 ratings — published 1974
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 233,189 ratings — published 2003
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,527 ratings — published 2019
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,494 ratings — published 2011
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,878 ratings — published 1995
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 106,262 ratings — published 2011
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,459 ratings — published 2000
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 895,104 ratings — published 2012
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.05 — 83,401 ratings — published 1999
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,747 ratings — published 1975
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.37 — 85,590 ratings — published 1998
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,242 ratings — published 2015
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West (A Historical Memoir)
by (shelved 26 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.45 — 7,042 ratings — published 2011
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 26 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,433 ratings — published 1902
Butcher's Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,791 ratings — published 1960
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,836 ratings — published 2013
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.46 — 769,975 ratings — published 1952
Inland (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.42 — 14,233 ratings — published 2019
Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.96 — 28,279 ratings — published 2016
Montana 1948 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,403 ratings — published 1993
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,741 ratings — published 1993
“It is too often the case,' Crook said, "that border news-papers disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians, which are copied in papers of high
character and wide circulation, in other parts of the country, while the Indians' side of the case is rarely ever heard. In this way the people at large get false ideas with reference to the matter. Then when the outbreak does come public attention is
turned to the Indians, their crimes and atrocities are alone condemned, while the persons whose injustice has driven them to this course escape scot-free and are the loudest in their denunciations. No one knows this fact better than the Indian, therefore
he is excusable in seeing no justice in a government which only punishes him, while it allows the white man to plunder him as he pleases.”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
character and wide circulation, in other parts of the country, while the Indians' side of the case is rarely ever heard. In this way the people at large get false ideas with reference to the matter. Then when the outbreak does come public attention is
turned to the Indians, their crimes and atrocities are alone condemned, while the persons whose injustice has driven them to this course escape scot-free and are the loudest in their denunciations. No one knows this fact better than the Indian, therefore
he is excusable in seeing no justice in a government which only punishes him, while it allows the white man to plunder him as he pleases.”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“Sitting Bull gave most of the money away to the band of ragged, hungry boys who seemed to surround him wherever he went. He once told Annie Oakley, another one of the Wild West Show's stars, that he could not understand how white men could be so unmindful of their own poor. "The white man knows how to make everything," he said, "but he does not know how to distribute it.”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
