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My Ántonia

"My Antonia" is a 1918 novel by American author Willa Cather, presented as the fictional memoir of a man named Jim Burde...

Literary Nebraska Plains Willa Cather

9.2 Excellent

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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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Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 short story collection by Annie Proulx, set primarily in rural Wyoming. It won th...

Wyoming Literary Short Stories Annie Proulx

8.8 Great

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Giants in the Earth

Giants in the Earth is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag, first published in Norwegian in 1924 as...

Norwegian Literary Homestead Dakota

8.7 Great

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Plainsong

Published in 1999, Plainsong is a literary novel by American author Kent Haruf that explores the intersecting lives of r...

Colorado Literary Plains Modern West

8.6 Great

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Andersonville

Andersonville is a historical novel by MacKinlay Kantor published in 1955, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1...

Award Winning Historical Civil War Prison

8.5 Great

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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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The Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a 1943 semi-autobiographical novel by Wallace Stegner that explores the American immigran...

Family Literary Frontier Plains

8.4 Great

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Montana 1948

Montana 1948 is a 1993 novella by American author Larry Watson, set in the fictional town of Bentrock, Montana. The stor...

Montana Crime Literary Modern West

8.3 Great

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Track of the Cat

Track of the Cat is a 1949 Western novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, set on an isolated ranch in the Nevada mountains d...

Family Literary Frontier Nevada

8.2 Great

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Eventide

Eventide is a literary novel by Kent Haruf published in 2004, set in the fictional farming community of Holt, Colorado....

Colorado Literary Plains Modern West

8.2 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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Peder Victorious

Peder Victorious is a 1929 novel written by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. As the second book in a trilog...

Norwegian Literary Sequel Dakota

8.0 Great

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These Thousand Hills

"These Thousand Hills" is a 1956 novel by A.B. Guthrie Jr., the third installment in his sequence of Western novels foll...

Montana Literary Frontier Cattle

7.8 Good

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Welcome to Hard Times

E.L. Doctorow's 1960 debut novel, a revisionist dark western set in the Dakota Territory that subverts frontier mytholog...

Literary Frontier Dakota E L Doctorow

7.8 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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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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Bloody Season

Bloody Season is a 1987 historical Western novel by Loren D. Estleman about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone...

Historical 1987 Wyatt Earp Loren D Estleman

7.0 Good

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Who Rides with Wyatt

Who Rides with Wyatt is a historical Western novel by Will Henry, the pen name used by American author Henry Wilson Alle...

Historical Lawman Wyatt Earp Will Henry

6.6 Fair