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American West Books
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.59 — 255,139 ratings — published 1985
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 103,752 ratings — published 1970
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.31 — 20,657 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 81 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 69,030 ratings — published 2010
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,499 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 — 137,375 ratings — published 1998
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 229,361 ratings — published 1985
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,048 ratings — published 1992
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,144 ratings — published 1968
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.23 — 68,557 ratings — published 1996
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,456 ratings — published 2009
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 75,279 ratings — published 1968
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 455,891 ratings — published 2017
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 38,238 ratings — published 2013
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,273 ratings — published 1954
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,033 ratings — published 1986
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 44,031 ratings — published 1927
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 256,456 ratings — published 2005
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 113,173 ratings — published 2016
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 149,238 ratings — published 1918
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,006,039 ratings — published 1939
The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,846 ratings — published 1947
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,328 ratings — published 2010
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 59,400 ratings — published 1913
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,717 ratings — published 2009
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,648 ratings — published 2019
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,739 ratings — published 2005
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,252 ratings — published 2011
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,558 ratings — published 1994
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 227,757 ratings — published 2003
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.88 — 46,025 ratings — published 2002
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,482 ratings — published 1995
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 875,085 ratings — published 2012
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,157 ratings — published 2000
Centennial (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 45,244 ratings — published 1974
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.82 — 28,176 ratings — published 2019
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,779 ratings — published 2015
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,069 ratings — published 2011
Butcher's Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,731 ratings — published 1960
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 80,852 ratings — published 1999
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.37 — 82,914 ratings — published 1998
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,725 ratings — published 1975
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 — 6,962 ratings — published 2011
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 25 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,122 ratings — published 1902
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 4.14 — 6,577 ratings — published 2013
Inland (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.42 — 13,957 ratings — published 2019
Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,424 ratings — published 2016
Montana 1948 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,901 ratings — published 1993
Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,738 ratings — published 1998
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,878,618 ratings — published 1937
“Along the way, decisions about interpretation and presentation were made. Very clearly, it was decided the Osage viewpoint would prevail - it would hold the center stage. If I have erred I have tried to err on behalf of the Osages. Some will accuse me of being biased in favor of the Osages. My answer is, “it is time for some bias in favor of the Osages - there has been so much bias against them.”
Another priority is to avoid the “Lo! The poor Indian,“ practice, which seeks to point to the great evils committed against Indians. If this were all it did, it would not be so repulsive, but it also points the accusing finger at all who have descended from those people who treated Indians so shabbily. It is an outright bid for sympathy and relieves one of the need to comprehend. The Osages do not need or want sympathy, but they desperately need understanding.”
― A History of the Osage People
Another priority is to avoid the “Lo! The poor Indian,“ practice, which seeks to point to the great evils committed against Indians. If this were all it did, it would not be so repulsive, but it also points the accusing finger at all who have descended from those people who treated Indians so shabbily. It is an outright bid for sympathy and relieves one of the need to comprehend. The Osages do not need or want sympathy, but they desperately need understanding.”
― A History of the Osage People
“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
