swap_horiz Devil's Backbone Alternatives

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My Ántonia

Presented as Jim Burden's fictional memoir, Willa Cather's 1918 novel My Ántonia looks back on childhood in Nebraska and...

Literary Nebraska Plains Willa Cather

9.24 Excellent

2

Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Annie Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories, published in 1999, is a short story collection rather than a novel. Set pri...

Wyoming Literary Short Stories Annie Proulx

8.78 Great

3

Giants in the Earth

Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag's Giants in the Earth follows Norwegian immigrants settling the Dakota prai...

Norwegian Literary Homestead Dakota

8.72 Great

4

Plainsong

In Kent Haruf's 1999 novel Plainsong, the fictional farming town of Holt, Colorado, becomes the meeting point for lives...

Colorado Literary Plains Modern West

8.64 Great

5

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wallace Stegner's 1943 semi-autobiographical novel The Big Rock Candy Mountain follows the Mason family through the west...

Family Literary Frontier Plains

8.42 Great

6

Honey in the Horn

Published in 1935, Honey in the Horn was H. L. Davis's debut novel and received the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1936...

Award Winning Literary Frontier Oregon

8.36 Great

7

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Published in 1927, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop follows Bishop Jean Marie Latour and his fellow French...

Historical Catholic Church New Mexico 1927

8.33 Great

8

Lord Grizzly

Frederick Manfred's 1954 novel Lord Grizzly turns the story of frontiersman Hugh Glass into a fictionalized account of s...

Survival Mountain Man Plains 1820S

8.28 Great

9

Montana 1948

Larry Watson's Montana 1948, published by Milkweed Editions in 1993, is a novella set in the fictional town of Bentrock,...

Montana Crime Literary Modern West

8.25 Great

10

Killdeer Mountain

Killdeer Mountain is a historical Western novel by Dee Brown that offers a revisionist, sympathetic perspective on tragi...

Historical Fiction Frontier 1983 Cavalry

6.81 Fair

11

Dance on the Wind

Dance on the Wind is a historical Western novel by Terry C. Johnston, published in 1995 as the first novel in the Titus...

Adventure 1995 Fur Trade Mountain Men

6.72 Fair

12

Ambush

Ambush is a Western story by Luke Short set during the period of conflict between the United States Army and Apache grou...

Classic Arizona Apache Cavalry

6.64 Fair

13

Bugles in the Afternoon

Bugles in the Afternoon is a historical western novel by Ernest Haycox, published in 1943. The book is centered on the F...

Cavalry Dakota 1944 Ernest Haycox

6.49 Fair

14

Arrow in the Sun

Arrow in the Sun is a Western novel by T. V. Olsen, published in 1969. Its story centers on a woman who has been capture...

Captive 1969 Cavalry Comanche

6.33 Fair

15

Pillars of the Sky

Pillars of the Sky is a Western novel by Will Henry, the pen name of American author Henry Wilson Allen. It was original...

Pacific Northwest 1956 Cavalry Nez Perce

6.16 Fair

16

One More River to Cross

One More River to Cross is a twentieth-century historical Western novel that dramatizes the immense hardships and surviv...

Frontier 1967 Cavalry Shoshone

5.24 Mediocre

17

Winter Rain

Winter Rain is a late-twentieth-century Western novel that explores the harsh living conditions and enduring human spiri...

Sequel Civil War 1994 Frontier

4.97 Poor

18

The Brass Command

The Brass Command is a twentieth-century Western novel noted for exploring themes of military authority and frontier jus...

Arizona Apache 1955 Cavalry

4.97 Poor

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Cry of the Hawk

Cry of the Hawk is a twentieth-century Western novel that features themes of frontier survival and the intense conflicts...

Civil War 1992 Frontier Terry C Johnston

4.78 Poor

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Black Sun

Black Sun is a historical Western novel by American writer Terry C. Johnston, published in 1990. It belongs to the Plain...

Frontier 1990 Plains Indian Terry C Johnston

4.51 Poor