swap_horiz High Vermilion Alternatives

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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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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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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

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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

7.76 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

7.72 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

7.72 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

7.36 Good

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Mountain Man

Mountain Man is a historical fiction novel written by Vardis Fisher and published in 1965. The book chronicles the life...

Classic Frontier Mountain Man Fur Trade

7.35 Good

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The Cherokee Trail

*The Cherokee Trail* is a historical Western novel by Louis L'Amour published in 1982. The story features Mary Breydon,...

Colorado Female Protagonist Frontier Louis Lamour

7.28 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

7.28 Good

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Sundown Jim

Sundown Jim is a Western novel written by Ernest Haycox, originally published in 1938. The narrative follows a range det...

Classic Range Frontier Lawman

7.22 Good

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Hard Money

Hard Money is a Western novel by Luke Short, published in 1940. The story is set in a Colorado silver-mining district an...

Classic Frontier Nevada Silver Mining

6.46 Fair

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Station West

Station West is a mid-1940s Western novel by Luke Short, the pen name of American writer Frederick Dilley Glidden. Its p...

Classic Mining 1947 Luke Short

6.27 Fair

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Coroner Creek

Coroner Creek is a 1945 Western novel by Luke Short. Chris Danning comes to the town after his fiancée dies during a sta...

Classic Revenge Frontier 1946

6.21 Fair

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Ride the Man Down

Ride the Man Down is a 1950 Western novel by Luke Short that explores the violent Arizona range wars involving competing...

Classic Frontier Range War 1942

6.03 Fair

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Hard Case

Hard Case is a 20th-century Western novel by Gordon D. Shirreffs, notable for its gritty depiction of frontier justice a...

Classic Conflict Frontier 1942

5.84 Mediocre

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Barren Land Showdown

Barren Land Showdown is a classic Western novel distinguished by its focused narrative on bitter conflicts over water ri...

Conflict Frontier Range War 1940

4.51 Poor

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Gunman's Chance

Gunman's Chance is a Western novel by Luke Short, the pen name used by writer Frederick Dilley Glidden. The book was pub...

Conflict Frontier 1941 Gunfighter

4.42 Poor

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Desert Crossing

Desert Crossing is a Western novel by Luke Short, the pen name of Frederick Dilley Glidden, first published in 1961. It...

Survival Conflict 1961 Frontier

4.32 Poor