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Old West Books
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.59 — 259,133 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 — 69,402 ratings — published 2010
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,278 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 — 2,878 ratings — published 2011
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 231,568 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 3.93 — 2,614 ratings — published 2019
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.31 — 20,753 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 — 104,171 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 3.82 — 4,456 ratings — published 2017
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,055 ratings — published 1968
Epitaph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,454 ratings — published 2015
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,928 ratings — published 1992
Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.99 — 795 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 — 1,795 ratings — published 2010
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,219 ratings — published 2020
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 — 3,656 ratings — published 2016
Six-Gun Snow White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,545 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 — 1,067 ratings — published 2013
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,153 ratings — published 1902
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,892 ratings — published 1995
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 809 ratings — published 1997
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,433 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 — 68,747 ratings — published 1996
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.47 — 769 ratings — published 2005
Vengeance Road (Vengeance Road, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,628 ratings — published 2015
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 55,838 ratings — published 2002
Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,383 ratings — published 2014
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,017 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 4.25 — 41,164 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 4.15 — 2,516 ratings — published 2008
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.74 — 874 ratings — published 2007
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,009 ratings — published 1964
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,500 ratings — published 1993
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,226 ratings — published 2023
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 — 308 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 4.12 — 1,829 ratings — published 2016
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 91,555 ratings — published 1985
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.63 — 599 ratings — published 2015
Rapunzel's Revenge (Rapunzel's Revenge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,969 ratings — published 2008
Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,303 ratings — published 2015
Under a Painted Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,972 ratings — published 2015
Beautiful Bad Man (Sutton Family, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,433 ratings — published 2012
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 38,341 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 4.05 — 12,368 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 — 83,170 ratings — published 1998
Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,641 ratings — published 1997
Redeeming Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.51 — 380,401 ratings — published 1991
Calamity Jack (Rapunzel's Revenge, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,118 ratings — published 2010
Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.84 — 185 ratings — published 2002
“He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter's fire on the prairie, after the hunter was up and gone; the coals would be trampled out, but the ground was warm, and the flattened grass where he had slept and where his pony had grazed, told the story.
This was the very end of the road-making West; the men who had put plains and mountains under the iron harness were old; some were poor, and even the successful ones were hunting for a rest and a brief reprieve from death. It was already gone, that age; nothing could ever bring it back. The taste and smell and song of it, the visions those men had seen in the air and followed, - these he had caught in a kind of afterglow in their own faces, - and this would always be his.”
― A Lost Lady
This was the very end of the road-making West; the men who had put plains and mountains under the iron harness were old; some were poor, and even the successful ones were hunting for a rest and a brief reprieve from death. It was already gone, that age; nothing could ever bring it back. The taste and smell and song of it, the visions those men had seen in the air and followed, - these he had caught in a kind of afterglow in their own faces, - and this would always be his.”
― A Lost Lady
“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
