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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

8.22 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

8.15 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

8.04 Great

12

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

8.02 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

7.82 Good

14

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

7.76 Good

15

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

7.72 Good

16

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

7.58 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

7.55 Good

18

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

7.34 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

6.58 Fair

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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

6.42 Fair