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Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.21 — 307,254 ratings — published 1935
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.21 — 293,674 ratings — published 1932
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.37 — 85,316 ratings — published 1998
The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
by (shelved 24 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.18 — 95,110 ratings — published 1940
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
by (shelved 24 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.23 — 110,410 ratings — published 1937
These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)
by (shelved 23 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,295 ratings — published 1943
By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
by (shelved 22 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,197 ratings — published 1939
Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)
by (shelved 22 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.20 — 95,783 ratings — published 1941
The First Four Years (Little House, #9)
by (shelved 19 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.87 — 46,400 ratings — published 1971
Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.03 — 20,315 ratings — published 2006
Farmer Boy (Little House, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,906 ratings — published 1933
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.85 — 92,560 ratings — published 1985
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,816 ratings — published
O Pioneers! (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.91 — 61,051 ratings — published 1913
A Lantern in Her Hand (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,610 ratings — published 1928
The Diary of Mattie Spenser (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,512 ratings — published 1997
Sarah's Quilt (Sarah Agnes Prine, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,187 ratings — published 2005
Caroline: Little House, Revisited (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,343 ratings — published 2017
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.91 — 139,974 ratings — published 1998
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,796 ratings — published 2014
The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
by (shelved 11 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.36 — 158,343 ratings — published 1971
Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.03 — 54,586 ratings — published 1935
Love Comes Softly (Love Comes Softly, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.26 — 46,476 ratings — published 1979
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell (Dear America)
by (shelved 9 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,848 ratings — published 1997
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,891 ratings — published 1914
Where the Lost Wander (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.39 — 90,024 ratings — published 2020
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.70 — 104,451 ratings — published 1826
Yesteryear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,067,147 ratings — published 2026
Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,603 ratings — published 1950
Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.12 — 44,574 ratings — published 1998
On the Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,672 ratings — published 1962
The Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,516 ratings — published 1940
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,967 ratings — published 2017
A Gown of Spanish Lace (Women of the West, #11)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,560 ratings — published 1995
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 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,992 ratings — published 2010
The Homesman (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,508 ratings — published 1988
The Courage of Sarah Noble (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,428 ratings — published 1954
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.48 — 8,076 ratings — published 2011
Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.88 — 37,763 ratings — published 1987
Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,250 ratings — published 1997
Sixteen Brides (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,537 ratings — published 2010
Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,980 ratings — published 1953
Skylark (Sarah, Plain and Tall #2)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,120 ratings — published 1994
West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 (Little House, #11)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,908 ratings — published 1974
Love's Unending Legacy (Love Comes Softly, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,117 ratings — published 1984
Love's Long Journey (Love Comes Softly, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,540 ratings — published 1982
When Calls the Heart (Canadian West, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,869 ratings — published 1983
Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,451 ratings — published 1979
Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,732 ratings — published 1983
Treasured Grace (Heart of the Frontier, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as pioneer)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,535 ratings — published 2017
“The forest was dense, and filled with all manner of vines and rank undergrowth; the road was a vague opening, where obstructing trees had been felled, the stumps and rotten trunks remaining. Across actual quags a track of logs and saplings had been laid, but long ago, now rotten and in broken patches. As far as the eye could reach, muddy water, sent back by a south wind from the gulf, extended over the vast flat before us, to a depth of from two to six feet, as per immediate personal measurement. We spurred in.
One foot:
Two feet, with hard bottom:
Belly-deep, hard bottom:
Shoulder-deep, soft bottom:
Shoulder-deep, with a sucking mire:
The same, with a network of roots, in which a part of the legs are entangled, while the rest are plunging. The same, with a middle ground of loose poles; a rotten log, on which we rise dripping, to slip forward next moment, head under, haunches in air. It is evident we have reached one of the spots it would have been better to avoid.”
― A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
One foot:
Two feet, with hard bottom:
Belly-deep, hard bottom:
Shoulder-deep, soft bottom:
Shoulder-deep, with a sucking mire:
The same, with a network of roots, in which a part of the legs are entangled, while the rest are plunging. The same, with a middle ground of loose poles; a rotten log, on which we rise dripping, to slip forward next moment, head under, haunches in air. It is evident we have reached one of the spots it would have been better to avoid.”
― A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
“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
