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GO WHERE THERE IS NO PATH AND LEAVE A TRAIL |
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FICTION WITH "CLASSIC" OLD WEST THEMES
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by Sebastian Barry
Thomas and John meet when they join the army together in 1851, and they soon are sent to fight Native Americans in Missouri. During the course of the novel, they witness massacres, participate in grisly Civil War battles, and end up adopting an orphaned Native girl as their daughter. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Rosanne Bittner
1869. When Kate Winters is left stranded and defenseless in outlaw country, she knows there's little chance she'll make it out alive, until she stumbles across a ruthless gang hanging a cowboy for his cattle. She waits until the outlaws are gone, desperate enough to claim the dead man's horse to make her escape, only to realize he's not dead after all. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Elizabeth Crook
Surviving a panther attack that kills her mother, a tenacious young woman resolves to find and kill the unusually aggressive cat with the assistance of a charismatic Mexican American, a haunted preacher, her traumatized half-brother, and an old hunting dog.
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by Patrick deWitt
It's 1851, and the mysterious Commodore has hired the Sisters brothers to execute a man who's turned against him. The brothers start out from their home in Oregon City in search of the improbably named Hermann Kermit Warm.
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by Amy Harmon
The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. |
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by Paulette Jiles Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a retired Civil War captain, didn't have babysitting on his mind when he drifted into town, but he ends up escorting a 10-year-old to her family for a $50 gold piece. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Robert Knott
When gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of Appaloosa, it sets off a fight between two shrewd local business operations as their hired gun hands square off over the claim. First a young miner disappears, then another. And then one of the businessmen himself is killed, right on his front doorstep. |
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by John Larison
Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, a 17-year-old sharpshooter cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
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by Elmore Leonard
John Russell, a young man nicknamed Hombre by the Apaches who raised him, has a deadly confrontation with a determined gang of stagecoach robbers.
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by Norman Lock
Like many another Irishman, Stephen Moran is snatched up by the Union Army, but because he's 16 and small, he becomes a bugler. His one attempt to fire a musket results in a blinded eye, but nonetheless General Grant pins a Medal of Honor on him and dispatches him to accompany Lincoln's body to its final resting place in Springfield.
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by Kevin McCarthy
A dark historical novel that tells of two Irish brothers and two Army veterans caught up in a civilian murder amid conflicts with Native Americans in the late 1860s. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Larry McMurtry Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, native Americans, and settlers. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Philipp Meyer
Kidnapped by the Comanche after his mother and sister are murdered, thirteen-year-old Eli McCullough quickly adapts to Comanche life until the tribe is decimated by armed Americans, leaving Eli alone in a world where he is neither white nor Indian. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Téa Obreht At 37, Nora Lark feels she's become a hard woman from the impossible challenges over the last 20 years with husband Emmett, who has pursued numerous failed adventures. The year 1893 finds them barely holding their ranch together in the Arizona Territory during a prolonged drought. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Robert B. Parker
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Charles Portis
14-year-old Mattie Ross hires Rooster Cogburn, the "meanest U.S. Marshal", to find Tom Chaney, the man who killed her father, stole his horse, and $150. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Shannon Pufahl
Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in. |
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by Glendon Swarthout
Mary Bee Cuddy is a 30-ish spinster, tough as nails but yearning for a man, who has set up a nice homestead out near the town of Loup, in Oklahoma Territory. Other women aren't so lucky--living in sod huts during a wild winter, with brutish husbands who treat them like beasts of burden, with children who die wholesale of dyptheria, they go insane. This year, it's Cuddy's job to take them back across the plains to the relative civilization of Iowa. available in alternate format(s) |
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by Ann Weisgarber
When Rachel, hired help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's son, he makes her a bargain: he'll marry her, but only if she gives up her 160 acres from the Homestead Act so he can double his share. |
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by Ethan J Wolfe
Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt in Chicago. Aunt Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. |
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