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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.60 — 290,514 ratings — published 1985
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 14 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,750 ratings — published 2010
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,778 ratings — published 2011
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,918 ratings — published 2011
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,982 ratings — published 1985
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 12 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,695 ratings — published 2019
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.31 — 21,495 ratings — published 2006
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,508 ratings — published 1970
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 9 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,589 ratings — published 2017
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 80,929 ratings — published 1968
Epitaph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,533 ratings — published 2015
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 156,870 ratings — published 1992
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 7 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,349 ratings — published 2020
Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.99 — 799 ratings — published 2006
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,823 ratings — published 2010
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,769 ratings — published 2016
Six-Gun Snow White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,567 ratings — published 2013
Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,092 ratings — published 2013
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,383 ratings — published 1902
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,989 ratings — published 1995
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 822 ratings — published 1997
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,451 ratings — published 2014
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.23 — 70,042 ratings — published 1996
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,332 ratings — published 2023
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.48 — 802 ratings — published 2005
Vengeance Road (Vengeance Road, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,726 ratings — published 2015
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 57,036 ratings — published 2002
Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,386 ratings — published 2014
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,528 ratings — published 2010
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,261 ratings — published 2009
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,583 ratings — published 2008
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.74 — 885 ratings — published 2007
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,165 ratings — published 1964
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,774 ratings — published 1993
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.95 — 70,646 ratings — published 2025
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.90 — 317 ratings — published 2018
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,893 ratings — published 2016
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 92,481 ratings — published 1985
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.44 — 905 ratings — published 1882
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.63 — 605 ratings — published 2015
Rapunzel's Revenge (Rapunzel's Revenge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 18,034 ratings — published 2008
Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,394 ratings — published 2015
Under a Painted Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,114 ratings — published 2015
Beautiful Bad Man (Sutton Family, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,584 ratings — published 2012
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,176 ratings — published 2013
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,621 ratings — published 2010
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.37 — 85,134 ratings — published 1998
Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.18 — 24,693 ratings — published 1997
Redeeming Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.51 — 389,133 ratings — published 1991
“You hang your heroes. That way they’ll never disappoint you.' It also brought to mind his own retort: 'But what about your enemies? What about the
villains? What do we do with those?”
― Coilhunter
villains? What do we do with those?”
― Coilhunter
“His seventeen murders aside, Bob was not such a bad guy. I know, because I rode with him and his boys for almost a year. Once, Bob had stayed up half the night to sing an old Apache healing chant to a horse that had bloated with the colic. It worked too. Next morning we found a half-digested tumbleweed in a pile of dung. It measured three feet across. That must have been one hell of a chant.”
― The Westering Trail Travesties, Five Little Known Tales of the Old West That Probably Ought to A' Stayed That Way
― The Westering Trail Travesties, Five Little Known Tales of the Old West That Probably Ought to A' Stayed That Way
