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The Time It Never Rained

The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton portrays the profound impact of a prolonged drought on a Texas ranching family...

Texas Ranching 1973 Elmer Kelton

8.8 Great

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The Day the Cowboys Quit

Elmer Kelton's The Day the Cowboys Quit is a 1971 historical Western novel inspired by the real-life 1883 Canadian River...

Texas 1971 Labor Elmer Kelton

8.3 Great

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The Good Old Boys

The Good Old Boys is a 1978 Western novel by Elmer Kelton following a traditional, wandering cowboy struggling to adapt...

Character Study Texas 1978 Elmer Kelton

8.0 Great

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Horseman, Pass By

Larry McMurtry's 1961 debut novel set on a Texas cattle ranch, exploring generational conflict between a rancher and his...

Coming Of Age Texas 1961 Ranch

7.8 Good

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The Light in the Forest

Conrad Richter's 1953 novel about a white boy raised by Delaware Indians who is forcibly returned to his biological fami...

Delaware Frontier Captive 1953

7.8 Good

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Comanche Moon

Written by Larry McMurtry in 1997, Comanche Moon is a notable Western novel that serves as the sweeping prequel to his P...

Texas 1997 Comanche Larry Mcmurtry

7.6 Good

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Stand Proud

Stand Proud is a 1984 Western novel by Elmer Kelton that explores the life of a wealthy but hardened Texas cattleman, hi...

Historical 1984 Texas Ranching

7.3 Good

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Leaving Cheyenne

Larry McMurtry's 1963 novel tracing a decades-long love triangle among two cowboys and a rancher's daughter in Texas, la...

Texas 1963 Ranch Larry Mcmurtry

7.3 Good

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The Bounty Hunters

Elmore Leonard's 1961 western novel follows a seasoned army scout leading a dangerous expedition to capture an elusive A...

Arizona Apache 1953 Bounty

7.0 Good

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Buffalo Wagons

Published in 1984, Buffalo Wagons by Elmer Kelton is a notable frontier adventure novel focusing on the dangerous commer...

Texas Western 1956 Buffalo Hunting

7.0 Good

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A Woman of the People

Benjamin Capps's 1966 novel following a young white girl captured by Comanches who gradually assimilates into the tribe...

Texas Captive 1966 Comanche

7.0 Good

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Sam Chance

Benjamin Capps's 1965 novel portraying the life of a Texas cattleman across several decades, from the open-range era thr...

Character Study Texas 1965 Ranching

7.0 Good

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Arrow in the Sun

T.V. Olsen's 1969 western novel about a cavalry officer escorting Cheyenne captives across the plains; adapted as the co...

Captive 1969 Cavalry Comanche

6.9 Fair

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Journey to Shiloh

Journey to Shiloh is a 1962 historical novel by Will Henry that follows a group of young Texas cowboys heading east to f...

Adventure Civil War Texas 1960

6.8 Fair

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The White Man's Road

Benjamin Capps's novel about a young Comanche man struggling to adapt to reservation life as the traditional ways of his...

Reservation 1969 Comanche Changing West

6.8 Fair

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Pillars of the Sky

Pillars of the Sky is a 1955 historical Western novel by Will Henry, acclaimed for its dramatic depiction of conflict in...

Pacific Northwest 1956 Cavalry Nez Perce

6.7 Fair

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West of the Pecos

West of the Pecos is a 1937 Western novel by Zane Grey following a Georgia family's journey to Texas and a heroine disgu...

Classic Texas 1937 Frontier

6.2 Fair

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Yellowstone Kelly

Yellowstone Kelly is a 1957 biographical Western novel by Clay Fisher, chronicling the real-life frontier adventures of...

Historical Yellowstone 1957 Scout

6.1 Fair

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Black Fox

Matt Braun's 1972 novel based on the true story of Britt Johnson, a Black Texan who negotiated with Comanche raiders in...

Texas 1972 Comanche Matt Braun

5.9 Mediocre

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The Trail Driver

The Trail Driver is a 1927 Western novel by Zane Grey that follows a young cowboy guiding a massive cattle drive from Te...

Classic Texas 1936 Cattle Drive

5.8 Mediocre