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  • Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Pulitzer-winning Lonesome…
    BookNew York : Simon and Schuster, [2000?], c1985. — FICTION MCMURTRY
  • Strongheart

    the Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill

    Fergus, Jim,
    In this final volume of the One Thousand White Women trilogy, Jim Fergus mixes with rare mastery the struggle of women and Native Americans in the face of oppression, from the end of the 19th century until today. With a vivid sense of the…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021. — FICTION FERGUS
  • Forced to gun down an innocent man, part-time sheriff Roberto Valdez is nearly killed and run out of town when he seeks justice for the dead man's family. But the same townsfolk who laughed at Valdez's dark skin, mocked his decency, and…
    PaperbackNew York : William Morrow, 2013, c1970. — FICTION LEONARD
  • Thirty-five tales of "courage in the Old West fill this volume of western morality tales by the multi-award-winning L'Amour. These are stories of hard men in worse places, youths winning their way to manhood, and women standing firm for…
    BookNew York : ǂb Bantam Books, ǂc 2004-<2009> — FICTION L'AMOUR
  • The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gunfighter at the turn of the twentieth century who must confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death. As word spreads that the famous assassin has incurable cancer, an assortment of human vultures…
    PaperbackLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2011, c1975. — FICTION SWARTHOUT
  • In the summer of 1889, a mysterious and charismatic man rides into a small Wyoming valley, where he joins homesteaders who take a stand against a bullying cattle rancher, and where he changes the lives of a young boy and his parents.
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001, c1949. — J SCHAEFER
  • Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. El Paso pits…
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2016] — FICTION GROOM
  • When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's…
    BookNew York : Ecco Press, 2011. — FICTION DEWITT
  • When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for…
    PaperbackNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2005. — FICTION PARKER
  • The novel tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome her persecution by members of her Mormon church. She does this with the help of her non-Mormon cowboy friends Bern Venters and Lassiter.
    PaperbackNew York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1990. — FICTION GREY
  • This is the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves…
    PaperbackNew York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2010. — FICTION PORTIS
  • Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. This is a savage and epic account of one man's extraordinary double life.
    PaperbackNew York : Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2005. — FICTION BERGER
  • Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the…
    PaperbackNew York : Penguin Books, 1994, c1938. — FICTION STEINBECK
  • Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and…
    PaperbackNew York : Modern Library, c1940. — Y FICTION CLARK
  • When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the Texas-Mexico border country he rides directly into a deadly feud. At odds are two land and cattle barons - Jericho Jackson, whose great spread lies just north of the Rio…
    BookNew York : Forge, 2004. — FICTION KELTON
  • Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman…
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — FICTION MCCARTHY
  • A venture into American history in which a young Harvard man drops out and heads west in the 1870's in search of one of the last great buffalo herds. --Washington Post
    PaperbackNew York : New York Review Books, c2007. — FICTION WILLIAMS
  • After hunting down the notorious desperado Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to San Cristóbal to stand trial. No sooner do they remand him into custody than a major bank robbery occurs…
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2014] — FICTION KNOTT
  • Brimming with the glory of America's past, the story of Colorado--the Centennial State--is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his…
    PaperbackNew York : Ballantine Books, 1983. — FICTION MICHENER
  • The Revenant

    a Novel of Revenge

    Punke, Michael
    A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass. "After narrowly surviving an attack by a grizzly bear, Glass is robbed…
    BookNew York : Picador, 2015. — FICTION PUNKE