11 Best westerns books like The Unforgiven by Alan LeMay

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The Unforgiven

By: Alan LeMay

3.99

Format: 380 pages,

The Texas Panhandle was a harsh and unforgiving place, but the Zachary family managed to get by. Un…

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Cover of The Virginian (Scribner Classics) by Owen Wister, Gary Scharnhorst

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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  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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)

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2. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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

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3. Dances with Wolves

By: Michael Blake

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civiliz… read more

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  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
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  • historical fiction
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"There are times when a person wants something so badly that price or condition cease to be obstacles."

-Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves

"He did not belong to the Indians. He did not belong to the whites. And it was not time for him to belong to the stars. He belonged right where he was. He belonged nowhere."

-Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves

"He did not belong to the Indians. He did not belong to the whites. And it was not time for him to belong to the stars. He belonged right where he was now. He belonged nowhere."

-Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves

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4. 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
  • historical
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"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

Cover of Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2) by Elmore Leonard

5. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

Cover of The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1) by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

6. 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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  • westerns
  • historical
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"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)

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7. Mojave Crossing

By: Louis L'Amour

3.49

Format: 312 pages,

In Mojave Crossing, Louis L'Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Ariz… read more

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  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Open Range

By: Lauran Paine

4.33

Format: 481 pages,

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. Josey Wales: Two Westerns

By: Forrest Carter

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • westerns
  • novels
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  • historical fiction
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10. 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
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Cover of The Unforgiven by Alan LeMay

11. The Unforgiven

By: Alan LeMay

3.99

Format: 380 pages,

The Texas Panhandle was a harsh and unforgiving place, but the Zachary family managed to get by. Un… read more

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  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook

12. 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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13. 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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14. West of the Tularosa

By: Louis L'Amour

5.00

Format: 120 pages,

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15. 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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16. The Lonely Men

By: Louis L'Amour

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In The Lonely Men,Louis L'Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap--only to disc… read more

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17. The Sky-Liners

By: Louis L'Amour

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

The Sackett boys weren't out to make a reputation; it just happened that way. They had crossed Blac… read more

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18. The Bounty Hunters

By: Elmore Leonard

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant … read more

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19. Heck's Stand: Heck and Hope, Book 5

By: John Deacon

4.66

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

THE ONLY TREASURE IN THIS LAND IS WATER.Running from an Indian war party, Heck hunkers down in a cl… read more

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20. Lockwood

By: Lauran Paine

4.30

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

A HARD TRAILCuff Lockwood has had enough of cold. He's worked a number of years in Montana as a ran… read more

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Cover of The Gun Never Forgets: A Classic Western Adventure Novel (Legends of the Lawless Frontier) by Ethan Westfield

21. The Gun Never Forgets: A Classic Western Adventure Novel (Legends of the Lawless Frontier)

By: Ethan Westfield

4.25

Format: 507 pages, Kindle Edition

Colt Branch is a man on the run, battling not only the ruthless bounty hunters on his trail but als… read more

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3.91

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Louis L'Amour

4.06

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4.23

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4.65

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