swap_horiz Killdeer Mountain 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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Lonely on the Mountain

Lonely on the Mountain is a Western novel written by Louis L'Amour and published in 1980. It forms part of the extensive...

Canada Frontier Cattle Drive Louis Lamour

7.20 Good

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Creek Mary's Blood

Creek Mary's Blood is a historical epic novel published in 1980 by American author Dee Brown. The narrative spans multip...

Historical Native American 1980 Dee Brown

7.19 Good

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The Daybreakers

The Daybreakers is a 1960 western novel by Louis L'Amour that follows brothers Tyrel and Orrin Sackett as they venture w...

Frontier Lawman 1960 Louis Lamour

7.13 Good

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The Light in the Forest

The Light in the Forest is a 1953 western novel by Conrad Richter that explores divided cultural identity. The story fol...

Delaware Frontier Captive 1953

7.13 Good

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Ride the River

Ride the River is a 1983 Western novel by Louis L'Amour, part of the Sackett series, and one of the few entries in that...

Adventure Female Protagonist Frontier Louis Lamour

7.12 Good

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A Country of Strangers

Published in 1966 by Conrad Richter, *A Country of Strangers* is a historical fiction novel that serves as the concludin...

Delaware Frontier Captive 1966

7.08 Good

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The High Rocks

"The High Rocks" is a historical Western novel written by Loren D. Estleman that serves as the inaugural entry in his lo...

Montana Frontier Lawman Loren Estleman

7.08 Good

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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