12 must-read westerns books like On the Border with Crook by John G. Bourke

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On the Border with Crook

By: John G. Bourke

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

“Among the ten best Western books of all time. It has that rare combination, a personal reminiscenc…

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1. Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

By: James B. Gillett

4.14

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

Texas in the nineteenth century was a dangerous place. The Texas Rangers were there to keep people … read more

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  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • westerns
  • nonfiction
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2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

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  • westerns
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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3. Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

By: Wooden Leg , None

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

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  • history
  • american
  • biography
  • nonfiction

4. A Rifleman Went To War

By: Herbert W. McBride

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

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5. Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

By: Charles Whiting

4.27

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of the most infamous massacre of American soldiers in World War Two.An ideal book for peo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

By: Herman Lehmann

4.17

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • westerns
  • nonfiction
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7. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

By: William Thomas Hamilton

4.17

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Of course I knew how to scalp, and soon accomplished the feat, much to his satisfaction, for he sai… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • westerns
  • nonfiction
Cover of On the Border with Crook by John G. Bourke

8. On the Border with Crook

By: John G. Bourke

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

“Among the ten best Western books of all time. It has that rare combination, a personal reminiscenc… read more

Similar categories in John G. Bourke's On the Border with Crook book and John G. Bourke's On the Border with Crook

  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • adventure
  • westerns
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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9. Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas

By: A.J. Sowell

4.30

Format: 660 pages, Kindle Edition

Life as an early settler in Texas was tough. Cattle rustlers stole people’s livelihoods, Native Am… read more

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  • history
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10. Thatch

By: R.O. Lane

4.63

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Thatch Elliott is adopted off a mercy train and makes a success of his life. Fifteen years later, h… read more

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  • westerns
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11. Will Fain, U.S. Marshal 4 (Will Fain, U. S. Marshal, West Texas)

By: R.O. Lane

4.61

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the fourth volume featuring Will Fain, a dedicated U.S. Marshal in Texas who is asked by a … read more

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  • westerns
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12. Yavapai Gold

By: R.O. Lane

4.56

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Kilcannon comes to the Mogollon Rim country of Arizona to help his friend, Lester Sutton, find buri… read more

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  • westerns
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13. Will Fain, U.S. Marshal, Book 6 (Will Fain, U. S. Marshal, West Texas)

By: R.O. Lane

4.58

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Will Fain, U. S. Marshal, Book 6--Will Fain and his deputies are directed by the President to catch… read more

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  • westerns
Cover of Will Fain, U.S. Marshal, Book 8 (Will Fain, U. S. Marshal, West Texas) by R.O. Lane

14. Will Fain, U.S. Marshal, Book 8 (Will Fain, U. S. Marshal, West Texas)

By: R.O. Lane

4.61

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

Will Fain meets the new judge for the Western District of Texas and is put on the chase for a kille… read more

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  • westerns
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15. The Iron Door Mine

By: R.O. Lane

4.54

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

He wasn't a gunfighter, just a young lawyer. They kidnapped his wife to force him to give them the … read more

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  • westerns
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16. Texas Paladin Rides Again

By: R.O. Lane

4.54

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

Texas Ranger Jubal Coe returns to the Texas Rangers and tackles one assignment after another. He go… read more

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  • westerns
Cover of Desperate Journey: Escape from Burma in 1942, through 900 miles of arduous, Japanese-occupied territory by Francis Clifford

17. Desperate Journey: Escape from Burma in 1942, through 900 miles of arduous, Japanese-occupied territory

By: Francis Clifford

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

“This is a story of escape; a true account of how a dwindling group of soldiers made their way to s… read more

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18. Life in the Confederate Army

By: William Watson

4.21

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1861 a Scotsman living in Louisiana took up the Confederate Flag. William Watson presents a nar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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19. On the Trail of Crazy Horse (Expanded, Annotated)

By: John F. Finerty

4.13

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Without question, one of the premier classic books on the American Indian Wars. John Frederick Fine… read more

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  • history
  • military history
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20. History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of West Virginia

By: Wills De Hass

3.92

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early eighteenth century what was west of the Appalachians was unknown. This area was danger… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Old Soldiers Never Die

By: Frank Richards

4.47

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

The author had enlisted in 1901 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was a reservist when the First Wor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • military history
  • nonfiction

12 best-selling history books like On the Border with Crook by John G. Bourke

Transform Your Habits

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

James B. Gillett

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

Wooden Leg , None

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December, 1944 (Forgotten Aspects of World War Two)

Charles Whiting

4.27

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21 must-read history books like My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton

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Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

James B. Gillett

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

James P. Beckwourth

4.16

Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)

James Willard Schultz

4.23

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American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Steven Rinella

3.50

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