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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 Brett Cogburn
Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice, betting everything she has, teams up Newt “Widowmaker” Jones on a treasure hunt in the California desert where the winner takes all and the losers die.
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by Carys Davies
Prompted by reports of giant animal bones found in Kentucky, a 19th century Pennsylvania mule breeder leaves his daughters behind on his small, failing farm and sets out with an American Indian guide into the harsh and strange Western landscape.
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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 William W. Johnstone
Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin learn their bosses are getting out of the beef business. The two plan to deliver the last two thousand cows to Abilene, collect their pay, and retire. There's just one problem: the company's lawyer is skipping town with all the workers' cash. They'll just have to steal it back.
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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 Matthew P. Mayo
Young Mitchell Newland, losing everything during a cattle drive, discovers just how many times a man’s luck can hold out as he fights to reclaim what’s his or die trying.
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by Kevin McCarthy
In the Dakota Territory in 1867, the O'Driscoll brothers, soldiers who have deserted the Indian Wars after surviving a Sioux massacre, seek refuge off of Bozeman Trail with the women they love where, while the world seeks its way to them, human nature makes its own trouble.
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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 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 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 Annie Proulx
Working as woodcutters under a feudal lord in 17th-century New France, two impoverished young Frenchmen follow separate journeys, one of extraordinary hardship, the other of wealth and craftiness, that shape their families throughout three centuries.
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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 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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