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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 character closely modeled on William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody. The book follows Cardiff from his youth as a Pony Express rider, buffalo hunter, and Army scout through his later career a...
apps Top Wild Times Alternatives
The top alternative to Wild Times in 2026 is Death Comes for the Archbishop with a score of 9.1/10, followed by Andersonville (8.5) and Honey in the Horn (8.4).
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a historical western novel by Willa Cather. It portrays the experiences of Father Seba...
Andersonville
Andersonville is a historical novel by MacKinlay Kantor published in 1955, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1...
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...
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a 1943 semi-autobiographical novel by Wallace Stegner that explores the American immigran...
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...
Doc
"Doc" is a historical fiction novel written by Mary Doria Russell and published in 2011. The book provides a biographica...
The Daybreakers
The Daybreakers is a 1960 western novel by Louis L'Amour that follows brothers Tyrel and Orrin Sackett as they venture w...
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...
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...
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...
Welcome to Hard Times
E.L. Doctorow's 1960 debut novel, a revisionist dark western set in the Dakota Territory that subverts frontier mytholog...
Epitaph
"Epitaph" is a 2015 historical novel by American author Mary Doria Russell. It is a sequel to her 2011 novel "Doc" and c...
I, Tom Horn
"I, Tom Horn" is a Western novel written by Will Henry (a pen name for Henry Wilson Allen) and published in 1975. Writte...
A Country of Strangers
Published in 1966 by Conrad Richter, *A Country of Strangers* is a historical fiction novel that serves as the concludin...
Enemy Women
Enemy Women is a historical fiction novel written by Paulette Jiles and published in 2002. The story is set in the Ozark...
The Friendly Persuasion
The Friendly Persuasion is a 1945 novel by Jessamyn West structured as a sequence of interconnected short stories. The n...
Desperadoes
"Desperadoes" is a historical fiction novel written by Ron Hansen and published in 1979. The book provides a fictionaliz...
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...
Buffalo Girls
Larry McMurtry's 1990 novel told partly through letters by Calamity Jane, portraying the twilight of the Wild West along...
This Old Bill
Loren D. Estleman's 1984 biographical novel following Buffalo Bill Cody from his frontier scouting days through the long...
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