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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.60 — 273,864 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 — 105,324 ratings — published 1970
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.31 — 21,120 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 — 70,564 ratings — published 2010
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,943 ratings — published 1971
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 138,670 ratings — published 1998
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 238,811 ratings — published 1985
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 153,695 ratings — published 1992
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,369 ratings — published 1996
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,840 ratings — published 1968
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 78,613 ratings — published 1968
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.09 — 175,753 ratings — published 2009
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 465,012 ratings — published 2017
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 38,776 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 — 4,313 ratings — published 1954
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,169 ratings — published 1986
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,964 ratings — published 1927
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 264,115 ratings — published 2005
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 114,235 ratings — published 2016
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,079 ratings — published 1918
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,724 ratings — published 1939
The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,933 ratings — published 1947
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 60,219 ratings — published 1913
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 — 12,481 ratings — published 2010
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,635 ratings — published 2009
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,809 ratings — published 2019
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 — 63,749 ratings — published 2005
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,306 ratings — published 2002
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,711 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 — 230,317 ratings — published 2003
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 — 10,324 ratings — published 2011
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,227 ratings — published 1995
Centennial (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 45,563 ratings — published 1974
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.82 — 28,836 ratings — published 2019
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 883,601 ratings — published 2012
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,987 ratings — published 2011
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 82,051 ratings — published 1999
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 — 14,298 ratings — published 2000
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.37 — 84,076 ratings — published 1998
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,189 ratings — published 1975
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,946 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 — 6,991 ratings — published 2011
Butcher's Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 41,881 ratings — published 1960
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 26 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,267 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 4.15 — 6,719 ratings — published 2013
Inland (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.42 — 14,066 ratings — published 2019
Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.96 — 27,744 ratings — published 2016
Montana 1948 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,120 ratings — published 1993
Doc (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,772 ratings — published 2011
Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 33,486 ratings — published 1998
“In 1904, the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued its first public report. 'The time has come,' it said, 'when we shall have to supplement the supply from another source.' With that simple statement, William Mulholland was about to become a modern Moses. But instead of leading his people to the promised land, he would cleave the desert and lead the promised waters to them.”
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty. Under these and under these alone, the faculties, the aspirations and inspirations of mankind may be unfolded into their full flowering to the fruition of an ever greater and more humane civilization.”
― Four Hundred Million Acres: The Public Lands and Resources
― Four Hundred Million Acres: The Public Lands and Resources
