swap_horiz Black Fox Alternatives

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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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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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Forty Lashes Less One

This 1972 western novel by Elmore Leonard follows two imprisoned men, a black man and a Chiricahua Apache, who are offer...

Arizona Prison 1972 Elmore Leonard

7.5 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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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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Treasure Mountain

Treasure Mountain is a 1972 Western novel by Louis L'Amour, featuring the lawyer-turned-frontiersman Orrin Sackett in a...

Gold 1972 Louisiana Louis Lamour

6.7 Fair

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Cimarron Jordan

Matt Braun's western novel following frontier lawman and buffalo hunter Cimarron Jordan as he imposes order on the viole...

Historical 1975 Plains Matt Braun

6.3 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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El Paso

Matt Braun's western novel set in the Texas border city of El Paso, depicting the violent clash among lawmen, gunfighter...

Historical Border 1980 Matt Braun

6.2 Fair

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Adobe Walls

Adobe Walls is a historical Western novel distinguished by its dramatic retelling of the iconic 1874 Texas battle betwee...

Texas 1953 Comanche Clay Fisher

6.2 Fair

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Kinch Riley

Matt Braun's western novel about a young gunfighter suffering from a fatal illness who earns a deadly reputation in the...

Frontier Lawman 1976 Kansas

6.0 Fair