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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 — 268,821 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 — 70,202 ratings — published 2010
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,751 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 — 2,894 ratings — published 2011
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.15 — 236,373 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 — 2,636 ratings — published 2019
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.31 — 20,996 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 — 104,956 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 — 4,504 ratings — published 2017
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 77,784 ratings — published 1968
Epitaph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,476 ratings — published 2015
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,810 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 — 1,806 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 — 3,254 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 — 3,692 ratings — published 2016
Six-Gun Snow White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,553 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 — 1,076 ratings — published 2013
The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,224 ratings — published 1902
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,801 ratings — published 1995
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.01 — 812 ratings — published 1997
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,441 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 — 69,157 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 — 1,263 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 — 778 ratings — published 2005
Vengeance Road (Vengeance Road, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,661 ratings — published 2015
The Revenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.97 — 56,207 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 — 13,198 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 — 42,147 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 — 2,538 ratings — published 2008
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.74 — 877 ratings — published 2007
Little Big Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,064 ratings — published 1964
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,460 ratings — published 1993
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 — 311 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 — 1,863 ratings — published 2016
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.85 — 91,996 ratings — published 1985
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.64 — 601 ratings — published 2015
Rapunzel's Revenge (Rapunzel's Revenge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,997 ratings — published 2008
Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,342 ratings — published 2015
Under a Painted Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,028 ratings — published 2015
Beautiful Bad Man (Sutton Family, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,479 ratings — published 2012
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.03 — 38,642 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 — 12,435 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 — 83,737 ratings — published 1998
Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,261 ratings — published 1997
Redeeming Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 4.51 — 383,573 ratings — published 1991
Calamity Jack (Rapunzel's Revenge, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as old-west)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,128 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
“Spanish is the lovin’ tongue,
Soft as music, light as spray.
’Twas a girl I learnt it from,
Livin’ down Sonora way.
I don’t look much like a lover,
Yet I say her love words over,
Often when I’m all alone—
“Mi amor, mi corazon.”
Nights when she knew where I’d ride,
She would listen for my spurs,
Throw the big door open wide,
Raise them laughin’ eyes of hers.
And my heart would nigh stop beatin'
When I heard her tender greeting,
Whispered soft for me alone—
“Mi amor! mi corazon!”
Moonlight in the patio,
Old señora noddin’ near,
Me and Juana talkin’ low
So the Madre couldn’t hear—
How those hours would go a-flyin’!
And too soon I’d hear her sighin’
In her little sorry tone—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
But one time I had to fly
For a foolish gamblin’ fight,
And we said a swift goodbye
In that black, unlucky night.
When I’d loosed her arms from clingin’
With her words the hoofs kep’ ringin’
As I galloped north alone—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
Never seen her since that night.
I kaint cross the Line, you know.
She was Mex and I was white;
Like as not, it’s better so.
Yet I’ve always sort of missed her
Since that last, wild night I kissed her,
Left her heart and lost my own—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
― Sun and Saddle Leather
Soft as music, light as spray.
’Twas a girl I learnt it from,
Livin’ down Sonora way.
I don’t look much like a lover,
Yet I say her love words over,
Often when I’m all alone—
“Mi amor, mi corazon.”
Nights when she knew where I’d ride,
She would listen for my spurs,
Throw the big door open wide,
Raise them laughin’ eyes of hers.
And my heart would nigh stop beatin'
When I heard her tender greeting,
Whispered soft for me alone—
“Mi amor! mi corazon!”
Moonlight in the patio,
Old señora noddin’ near,
Me and Juana talkin’ low
So the Madre couldn’t hear—
How those hours would go a-flyin’!
And too soon I’d hear her sighin’
In her little sorry tone—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
But one time I had to fly
For a foolish gamblin’ fight,
And we said a swift goodbye
In that black, unlucky night.
When I’d loosed her arms from clingin’
With her words the hoofs kep’ ringin’
As I galloped north alone—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
Never seen her since that night.
I kaint cross the Line, you know.
She was Mex and I was white;
Like as not, it’s better so.
Yet I’ve always sort of missed her
Since that last, wild night I kissed her,
Left her heart and lost my own—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
― Sun and Saddle Leather
“Dyin' ain't much of a livin”
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