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American West Books
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.57 — 229,816 ratings — published 1985
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,798 ratings — published 1970
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.30 — 19,583 ratings — published 2006
Empire of the Summer Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,629 ratings — published 2010
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.24 — 61,669 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 — 135,523 ratings — published 1998
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 211,490 ratings — published 1985
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 143,047 ratings — published 1992
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.09 — 172,172 ratings — published 2009
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,751 ratings — published 1968
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,015 ratings — published 1996
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,258 ratings — published 1968
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 37,538 ratings — published 2013
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 434,885 ratings — published 2017
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,765 ratings — published 1986
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,198 ratings — published 1954
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,517 ratings — published 1927
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 239,438 ratings — published 2005
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 111,366 ratings — published 2016
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.02 — 981,332 ratings — published 1939
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.84 — 146,091 ratings — published 1918
The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,686 ratings — published 1947
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 57,906 ratings — published 1913
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,025 ratings — published 2010
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,641 ratings — published 2009
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 4.06 — 60,907 ratings — published 2005
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 222,595 ratings — published 2003
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,475 ratings — published 2019
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 4.11 — 10,058 ratings — published 2011
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.16 — 46,338 ratings — published 1994
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 858,054 ratings — published 2012
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 23,428 ratings — published 1995
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 78,861 ratings — published 1999
Centennial (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 44,766 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 — 27,156 ratings — published 2019
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,338 ratings — published 2011
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.99 — 13,868 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 4.36 — 81,131 ratings — published 1998
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,829 ratings — published 1975
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,447 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 3.44 — 6,925 ratings — published 2011
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 25 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,894 ratings — published 1902
Inland (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.42 — 13,747 ratings — published 2019
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 — 6,390 ratings — published 2013
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,650 ratings — published 2002
Butcher's Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,732 ratings — published 1960
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as american-west)
avg rating 4.43 — 617,969 ratings — published 1952
Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,775 ratings — published 2016
Montana 1948 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,250 ratings — published 1993
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as american-west)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,785,274 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
“We tried to run," Louise Weasel Bear said, "but they shot us like we were a buffalo. I know there are some good white people, but the soldiers must be mean to shoot children and women. Indian soldiers would not do that to white children.”
― 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
