The Searchers
By: Alan LeMay
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On the Texas frontier, a Comanche war party attacks the Edwards ranch and kills all the inhabitants…
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1. The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
By: Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory… read more
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"Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!"-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
2. The Time It Never Rained
By: Elmer Kelton
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the 1950s, West Texas suffered the longest drought in the memory of most men then living. By tha… read more
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- westerns
- historical
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- historical fiction
3. 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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"I’m not a chicken, Corporal Call,"-Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
4. 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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- adventure
- westerns
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"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)
5. 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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- adventure
- westerns
- historical
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- historical 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
6. 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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- adventure
- westerns
- historical
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- 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
7. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more
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- adventure
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- historical fiction
"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
8. The Searchers
By: Alan LeMay
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On the Texas frontier, a Comanche war party attacks the Edwards ranch and kills all the inhabitants… read more
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9. Mountain Man
By: Vardis Fisher
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press A classic in Amer… read more
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11. 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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13. 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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14. 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
- classics
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15. The Ox-Bow Incident
By: Wallace Stegner , Walter Van Tilburg Clark
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incidentis a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violen… read more
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16. Horseman, Pass By
By: Larry McMurtry
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LonesomeDovecomes the novel that became the basis for the… read more
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17. Warlock (Legends West, #1)
By: Robert Stone , Oakley Hall
3.87
Format: 268 pages,
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlockrevisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to p… read more
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18. Little Big Man
By: Thomas Berger
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of… read more
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19. 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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20. The Shootist
By: Glendon Swarthout , None
4.14
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gun… read more
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21. 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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