swap_horiz Plainsong Alternatives

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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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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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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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Lord Grizzly

Lord Grizzly is a biographical western novel written by Frederick Manfred, published in 1954. The book provides a fictio...

Survival Mountain Man Plains 1820S

8.3 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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Epitaph

"Epitaph" is a 2015 historical novel by American author Mary Doria Russell. It is a sequel to her 2011 novel "Doc" and c...

Historical Literary Tombstone Mary Doria Russell

7.8 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

7.7 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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Riders of Judgment

Riders of Judgment is a 1957 novel by Frederick Manfred that fictionalizes Wyoming's Johnson County War of 1892. The boo...

Wyoming Literary Outlaw Range War

7.5 Good

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They Came to Cordura

They Came to Cordura is a 1958 western novel by Glendon Swarthout set during the 1916 U.S. Punitive Expedition into Mexi...

Military Courage Literary Mexico

7.4 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