14 must-read nonfiction books like Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire by Lewis Hector Garrard

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Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

By: Lewis Hector Garrard

4.12

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

“the book is a minor classic of great charm, which has never had anything like the currency or crit…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire by Lewis Hector Garrard , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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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  • westerns
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

By: Ivan Doig

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Paperback

Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens o… read more

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  • westerns
  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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

By: James P. Beckwourth

4.16

Format: 347 pages,

read more

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  • westerns
  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Smiley's People

By: John Le Carré

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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6. Child of the Fighting Tenth: On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers

By: Forrestine C. Hooker , the late Forrestine C. Hooker

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This memoir by Forrestine Cooper Hooker details her childhood and young adulthood in the midst of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • westerns
  • adventure
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8. My People the Sioux

By: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve , Luther Standing Bear

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

9. Ghost Ranch

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

For more than a century, Ghost Ranch has attracted people of enormous energy and creativity to the … read more

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10. Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession

By: Craig Childs

3.75

Format: 160 pages, ebook

To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero--or a vi… read more

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11. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

By: Peter Hathaway Capstick , None

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

St. Martin's is proud to present a new series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting… read more

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12. Brighty of the Grand Canyon

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the high cliffs of the Grand Canyon and touched the hearts of … read more

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13. Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous … read more

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14. The Saga of Pappy Gunn

By: George C. Kenney

4.35

Format: None pages,

read more

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15. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

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  • westerns
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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16. Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.27

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for… read more

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"Home and I are such good friends."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

"Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

"Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

"We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

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17. The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter

By: John Crittenden Duval

3.85

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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18. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

By: John Nelson

4.34

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner; John Young Nelson… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860

By: Lavinia Honeyman Porter

4.21

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

“We then determined to use the small remnant of our fortune to provide a suitable outfit for a leng… read more

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  • westerns
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • travel
Cover of Escape From Arnhem: A Canadian Among the Lost Paratroops (Memoirs from World War Two) by Leo Heaps

20. Escape From Arnhem: A Canadian Among the Lost Paratroops (Memoirs from World War Two)

By: Leo Heaps

4.25

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable true story of a Canadian paratrooper’s escape from behind enemy lines following the … read more

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  • history
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21. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky

By: James Ohio Pattie

4.14

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

James O. Pattie’s Personal Narrative is a prime source for the history of the Southwest during the … read more

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  • history
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22. George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks

By: Jerry Emory

4.44

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and scie… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Penguin Classics) by Charles A. Siringo

23. A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Penguin Classics)

By: Charles A. Siringo

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle… read more

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  • westerns
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire by Lewis Hector Garrard

24. Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

By: Lewis Hector Garrard

4.12

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

“the book is a minor classic of great charm, which has never had anything like the currency or crit… read more

Similar categories in Lewis Hector Garrard's Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire book and Lewis Hector Garrard's Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

  • history
  • adventure
  • westerns
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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25. Commerce of the Prairies

By: Josiah Gregg

4.03

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

'a classic in the literature of Western history' Josiah A. Gregg, an experienced trader on the plai… read more

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  • westerns
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Lucky Infantryman

By: Ed Jackel

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Ed Jackel spent just shy of two years serving in the United States Army during World War II. A youn… read more

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27. The Lorraine Campaign

By: Hugh M. Cole

3.87

Format: 680 pages, Kindle Edition

On the 1st September 1944, General Patton and his Third Army stood poised to strike at what they th… read more

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  • history
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28. The Fighting Cheyennes

By: George Bird Grinnell

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cheyenne were one of the most important Native American tribes of the Great Plains. Through the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Pour Rilla, dernière-née d’Anne Shirley et Gilbert Blythe, pas question d’études comme ses frères e… read more

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"If I can't love you I mean to be proud of you."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

"Ah yes, you're young enough not to be afraid of perfect things."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

"Dream after dream comes true—or rather is made true by persevering effort."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

"After all it was not a hard thing to fight for a land that bore daughters like this."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

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30. Desert Duty: On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol

By: Bill Broyles

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

While politicians and pundits endlessly debate immigration policy, U.S. Border Patrol agents put th… read more

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31. Wild life in the Far West; Personal Adventures of a Border Mountain Man (1872)

By: James Hobbs

4.30

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

James Hobbs ( 1819 - 1897), who was also known as "Comanche Jim", was the Great-grandson of renowne… read more

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15 Top history books like Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire by Lewis Hector Garrard

Transform Your Habits

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

James B. Gillett

4.14

Transform Your Habits

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

Ivan Doig

4.16

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

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

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Tail Gunner

Richard C. Rivaz

4.17

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The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter

John Crittenden Duval

3.85

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My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (1907)

James Willard Schultz

4.43

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By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860

Lavinia Honeyman Porter

4.21

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