8 Best westerns books like They Came to Cordura by Glendon Swarthout

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They Came to Cordura

By: Glendon Swarthout

4.03

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five brave men, a coward, and a woman suspected of treason on a strange and violent journey across …

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1. Shane

By: Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the su… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts."

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

"A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who …"

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

"With us he spoke freely enough. We were, in some subtle way, his folks. Though we had taken him in, you had the feeling that he had adopted us. But with others he was reserved; courteous and soft-spo…"

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

"I would think of him most vividly in that single flashing instant when he whirled to shoot Fletcher on the balcony at Grafton’s saloon. I would see again the power and grace of coordinate force beaut…"

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

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2. Winter in the Blood

By: James Welch

3.82

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had followed the calendar, the years, time- Bird farted. And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it…"

-James Welch, Winter in the Blood

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3. Get Carter

By: Ted Lewis

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral - his brother's. Frank's car was found at the bott… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1) by Robert B. Parker

4. Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1)

By: Robert B. Parker

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Drifter (Peter Ash, #1)

By: Nick Petrie , Nicholas Petrie

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

An explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren'… read more

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  • fiction
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6. 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
  • historical fiction
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7. 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
  • historical fiction

8. Rogue Male

By: Geoffrey Household

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate … read more

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9. Burning Bright (Peter Ash, #2)

By: Nick Petrie , Nicholas Petrie

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

In the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Ja… read more

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10. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more

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11. The New Centurions

By: Joseph Wambaugh

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the baby-faced rookies to hashmark heroes, they are besieged men, dealing daily with a world c… read more

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12. Down the Long Hills: A Novel

By: Louis L'Amour

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face t… read more

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13. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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14. 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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15. Valdez Is Coming

By: Elmore Leonard

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

16. The Devil's Alternative

By: Frederick Forsyth

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But as the … read more

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17. The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

By: Jack E. Davis

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind… read more

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18. The Good Shepherd

By: C.S. Forester

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The Good Shepherd has been adapted into a major motion picture, Greyhound, scripted by and starring… read more

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  • military fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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20. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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21. They Came to Cordura

By: Glendon Swarthout

4.03

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five brave men, a coward, and a woman suspected of treason on a strange and violent journey across … read more

Similar categories in Glendon Swarthout's They Came to Cordura book and Glendon Swarthout's They Came to Cordura

  • westerns
  • military fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12 Best fiction books like They Came to Cordura by Glendon Swarthout

Transform Your Habits

Shane

Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Winter in the Blood

James Welch

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Get Carter

Ted Lewis

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1)

Robert B. Parker

4.82

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14 must-read fiction books like Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard

Transform Your Habits

Fat City

Leonard Gardner

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Shane

Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Searchers

Alan LeMay

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

James Ellroy

4.26

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