13 must-read fiction books like Conquering Horse (The Buckskin Man Tales) by Frederick Manfred

Cover of Conquering Horse (The Buckskin Man Tales) by Frederick Manfred

Conquering Horse (The Buckskin Man Tales)

By: Frederick Manfred

4.01

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cann…

If you liked the fiction plot in Conquering Horse (The Buckskin Man Tales) by Frederick Manfred , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Joe Pepper (Tales of Texas) by Elmer Kelton

1. Joe Pepper (Tales of Texas)

By: Elmer Kelton

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in h… read more

Similar categories in Elmer Kelton's Joe Pepper (Tales of Texas) book and Frederick Manfred's Conquering Horse (The Buckskin Man Tales)

  • westerns
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3) by Larry McMurtry

2. Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larr… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"I’m not a chicken, Corporal Call,"

-Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)

Cover of Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4) by Larry McMurtry

3. Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.12

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had be…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"Buffalo Hump wanted to see the ocean because the ocean would always be as it was. Few things could stay forever in the way they were when the spirits made them. Even the great plains of grass, the ho…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

Cover of Hondo by Louis L'Amour

4. Hondo

By: Louis L'Amour

4.06

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the A… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say."

-Louis L'Amour, Hondo

Cover of The Revenant by Michael Punke

5. The Revenant

By: Michael Punke

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."

-Michael Punke, The Revenant

Cover of Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1) by Louis L'Amour

6. Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

By: Louis L'Amour

4.16

Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enth… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment. ~Barnabas Sackett~"

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

"I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen."

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

"I cannont believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I…"

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

Cover of To Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour, Jason Culp

7. To Tame a Land

By: Louis L'Amour , Jason Culp

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Audio CD

Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious strange… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction

8. The Daybreakers

By: Louis L'Amour

3.71

Format: 192 pages,

Orrin Sackett had to be pushed into a fight. But Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble. The night Tye s… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
Cover of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

9. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
Cover of True Grit by Charles Portis

10. 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
  • fiction
Cover of Hombre by Elmore Leonard

11. Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction

12. The Bad Lands (Legends West, #2)

By: Oakley Hall

3.29

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

To forget his past, Andrew Livingston leaves New York - and a terrible family tragedy - behind and … read more

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13. Matagorda

By: Louis L'Amour

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test a… read more

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14. The Quick and the Dead

By: Louis L'Amour

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was pre… read more

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15. Last of the Breed

By: Louis L'Amour

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. It … read more

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16. Resolution (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #2)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.91

Format: 631 pages,

The "New York Times"?bestselling author's richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful ta… read more

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17. Utah Blaine

By: Louis L'Amour , Jim Mayo

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north… read more

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18. Streets of Laredo

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Loneso… read more

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19. Trouble Shooter

By: Louis L'Amour , Tex Burns

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Hopalong Cassidy is one of the most enduring and popular heroes in frontier fiction. His legendary … read more

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20. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

By: Hampton Sides

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. T… read more

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21. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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Cover of To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2) by Louis L'Amour

22. To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

By: Louis L'Amour

4.19

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after retur… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?"

-Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

"[Barnabas speaks] "I will drink water." "Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale . . . or wine, if you are a Frenchman." [William answer…"

-Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

Cover of Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath

23. Riverman: An American Odyssey

By: Ben McGrath

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years… read more

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"No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it."

-Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey

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24. A Thousand Texas Longhorns

By: Johnny D. Boggs

4.33

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Multiple award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs, one of the most respected and popular writers of Wes… read more

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  • westerns
Cover of Conquering Horse (The Buckskin Man Tales) by Frederick Manfred

25. Conquering Horse (The Buckskin Man Tales)

By: Frederick Manfred

4.01

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cann… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • native american
  • fantasy

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