swap_horiz Plainsong Alternatives

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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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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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Lord Grizzly

Frederick Manfred's 1954 novel Lord Grizzly turns the story of frontiersman Hugh Glass into a fictionalized account of s...

Survival Mountain Man Plains 1820S

8.28 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

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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

8.02 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

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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

7.82 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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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

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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

7.48 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

7.38 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

7.34 Good