swap_horiz Andersonville Alternatives

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop is a historical western novel by Willa Cather. It portrays the experiences of Father Seba...

Historical Catholic Church New Mexico 1927

9.1 Excellent

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Honey in the Horn

"Honey in the Horn" is a debut novel by Harold L. Davis, published in 1935 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction th...

Award Winning Literary Frontier Oregon

8.4 Great

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Doc

"Doc" is a historical fiction novel written by Mary Doria Russell and published in 2011. The book provides a biographica...

Historical Literary Doc Holliday Mary Doria Russell

8.0 Great

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Last Stand at Saber River

"Last Stand at Saber River" is a 1967 Western novel by acclaimed author Elmore Leonard set in the aftermath of the Ameri...

Arizona Homecoming Civil War 1959

7.8 Good

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Creek Mary's Blood

Creek Mary's Blood is a historical epic novel published in 1980 by American author Dee Brown. The narrative spans multip...

Historical Native American 1980 Dee Brown

7.8 Good

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Epitaph

"Epitaph" is a 2015 historical novel by American author Mary Doria Russell. It is a sequel to her 2011 novel "Doc" and c...

Historical Literary Tombstone Mary Doria Russell

7.8 Good

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I, Tom Horn

"I, Tom Horn" is a Western novel written by Will Henry (a pen name for Henry Wilson Allen) and published in 1975. Writte...

Wyoming Historical 1975 Will Henry

7.7 Good

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Enemy Women

Enemy Women is a historical fiction novel written by Paulette Jiles and published in 2002. The story is set in the Ozark...

Literary Civil War Frontier Missouri

7.7 Good

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The Friendly Persuasion

The Friendly Persuasion is a 1945 novel by Jessamyn West structured as a sequence of interconnected short stories. The n...

Civil War Frontier Indiana Quaker

7.7 Good

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Desperadoes

"Desperadoes" is a historical fiction novel written by Ron Hansen and published in 1979. The book provides a fictionaliz...

Historical Literary Outlaw Ron Hansen

7.6 Good

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Long Remember

"Long Remember" is a historical novel written by MacKinlay Kantor and published in 1934. The narrative provides a detail...

Historical Literary Gettysburg Civil War

7.6 Good

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Forty Lashes Less One

Forty Lashes Less One is a 1972 Western novel by American writer Elmore Leonard. Set in territorial Arizona, it follows...

Arizona Prison 1972 Elmore Leonard

7.5 Good

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From Where the Sun Now Stands

Written by Will Henry, From Where the Sun Now Stands is a 1976 historical Western novel that earned a Spur Award for its...

Historical 1960 Will Henry Nez Perce

7.5 Good

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Wild Times

Wild Times is a 1978 novel by Brian Garfield, structured as the fictional memoir of frontier showman Hugh Cardiff, a cha...

Epic Historical Frontier Buffalo Bill

7.4 Good

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Stand Proud

Stand Proud is a 1984 Western novel by Texas author Elmer Kelton. The story follows Frank Clay, a wealthy and hardened c...

Historical 1984 Texas Ranching

7.3 Good

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Black Powder, White Smoke

*Black Powder, White Smoke* is a Western novel written by Loren D. Estleman and published in 2002. The narrative is stru...

Historical Race Frontier Bounty Hunter

7.3 Good

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Journey of the Dead

Journey of the Dead is a historical western novel written by Loren D. Estleman and published in 1998. The narrative reim...

Historical Literary New Mexico Billy The Kid

7.3 Good

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The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier is a historical novel by American writer Howard Fast, first published in 1941. It dramatizes the 1878-...

Historical 1941 Howard Fast Cheyenne

7.2 Good

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Buffalo Girls

Buffalo Girls is a 1990 historical novel by Larry McMurtry centered on Martha Jane Canary, known as Calamity Jane. The n...

Historical Frontier 1990 Larry Mcmurtry

7.1 Good

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Camp Ford

Camp Ford is a 2005 historical western novel by Johnny D. Boggs, an author who has received multiple Spur Awards from th...

Historical Civil War Texas Prisoner Of War

6.7 Fair