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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 20,700 ratings — published 2006
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,592 ratings — published 2013
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 103,959 ratings — published 1970
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 68,644 ratings — published 1996
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,151 ratings — published 1987
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,650 ratings — published 2016
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,276 ratings — published 1954
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,350 ratings — published 2010
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 6 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 69,189 ratings — published 2010
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,665 ratings — published 2019
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 34,426 ratings — published 1988
The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,269 ratings — published 2023
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,095 ratings — published 2020
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,910 ratings — published 2009
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,429 ratings — published 2017
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,203 ratings — published 2020
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,608 ratings — published 2019
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 306 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 western-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,824 ratings — published 2016
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,277 ratings — published 1918
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,873 ratings — published 2011
The Plains Across : The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 89 ratings — published 1982
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,952 ratings — published 731
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,223 ratings — published 2023
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,049 ratings — published 1986
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 456,795 ratings — published 2017
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.59 — 256,828 ratings — published 1985
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,442 ratings — published 2017
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,193 ratings — published 2009
How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 836 ratings — published 2013
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,266 ratings — published 1835
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (Search and Recover)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,713 ratings — published 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 150,168 ratings — published 1960
Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 305 ratings — published 1982
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,076 ratings — published 2014
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,658 ratings — published 2000
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 96,500 ratings — published 2005
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,116 ratings — published 2014
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,602 ratings — published 2011
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 672 ratings — published 1958
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,080 ratings — published 1903
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,077 ratings — published 2024
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 17,287 ratings — published 2024
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 659 ratings — published 2022
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 891 ratings — published 2021
This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 311 ratings — published
Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 259 ratings — published 2023
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,687 ratings — published 2017
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 671 ratings — published 2020
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as western-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,580 ratings — published 2023
“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“Children happily played "cowboys and Indians" but stopped short of "masters and slaves.”
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